Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Young, Owen D.

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

Bible

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.

10.

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

11.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

12.

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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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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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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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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

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

24.

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

Clare Booth Luce

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Bible

28.

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

Bible

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

32.

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

Taylor, Bayard

33.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

34.

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

Mark Twain

35.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

37.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

39.

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

40.

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

41.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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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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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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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