Motivational Quotes

Courage

No one reaches a high position without daring.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Mark Twain

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

Lewis, Sinclair

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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 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

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

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Bible

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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 the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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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 wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

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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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Smith, Sydney

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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

39.

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 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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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Proverb

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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