Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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

E. M. Forster

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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

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

Jensen, Andrew

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Twain, Mark

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

Plaut

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

Churchill, Winston

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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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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

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

32.

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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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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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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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray