Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Seneca

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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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

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.