Motivational Quotes

Courage

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

- Smith, Sydney

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Barton, Bruce

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Disney, Walt

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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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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

Mark Twain

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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.

34.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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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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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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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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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Bible

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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.