Motivational Quotes

Courage

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

- Taylor, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Courage

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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.

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Corra Harris

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.

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

Thomas Fuller

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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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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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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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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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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

Joel, Billy

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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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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.

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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

Plaut

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Voltaire

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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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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 consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

42.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Mark Twain

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid