Motivational Quotes

Courage

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Anouilh, Jean

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?

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

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Worsham, James A.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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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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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Bible

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

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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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

Twain, Mark

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

Seneca

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

Luther, Martin

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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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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.

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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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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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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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 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

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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

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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

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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

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

Disney, Walt

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Shaw, George Bernard