Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

- Seabury, David

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Carnegie, Dale

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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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 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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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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 stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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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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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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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

Jensen, Andrew

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

Twain, Mark

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Plutarch

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

Cicero

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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