Motivational Quotes

Courage

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

- Regnard, Jean Francois

Best Quotes about Courage

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

14.

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

15.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

21.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

24.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

31.

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois