Motivational Quotes

Courage

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Courage

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

Worsham, James A.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Kirby Larson

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

Bible

11.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

12.

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

13.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

14.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

15.

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

Bible

16.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Jensen, Andrew

18.

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

Carnegie, Dale

19.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

20.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

21.

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

Anouilh, Jean

22.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

23.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

24.

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

26.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

29.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

30.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

37.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

39.

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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

44.

There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

45.

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

Proverb

46.

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

Bernanos, Georges

47.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

50.

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor