Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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Best Quotes about Courage

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

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

Mark Twain

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

10.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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

Battista, D.A.

17.

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

Plutarch

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

E. M. Forster

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Disney, Walt

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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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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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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

31.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

36.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.