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

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

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

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

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

Seneca

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

Euripides

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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

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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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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]

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

King, Basil

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

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