Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Courage

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

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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

Tyger, Frank

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Mark Twain

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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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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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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

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

Bible

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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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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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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 you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

King, Basil

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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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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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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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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil