Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Taylor, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Plaut

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

Bernanos, Georges

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Clare Booth Luce

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

10.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

11.

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

Cicero

12.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

13.

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

14.

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

15.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

16.

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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

21.

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

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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

23.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

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

Anouilh, Jean

26.

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

Thomson, James

27.

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

Carnegie, Dale

28.

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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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

32.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

33.

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

Corra Harris

34.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

42.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

44.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

45.

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!

46.

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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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

49.

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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek