Motivational Quotes

Courage

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

- Shaftesbury, Lord

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Tyger, Frank

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bombeck, Erma

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Petit-Senn, John

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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.

11.

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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

Valois, Margaret

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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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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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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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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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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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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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.

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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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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Seneca

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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 follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Voltaire

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert