Motivational Quotes

Courage

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Collier, Jeremy

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

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

Valois, Margaret

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bible

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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

Churchill, Winston

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Joel, Billy

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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

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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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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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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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 brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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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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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Karr, Alphonse

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