Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Cicero

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

Churchill, Winston

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

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Bible

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

11.

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

12.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

13.

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

14.

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

Disney, Walt

15.

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

Twain, Mark

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

17.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

18.

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

19.

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

22.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

23.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

24.

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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Karr, Alphonse

27.

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.

28.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

29.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnson, Samuel

31.

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

32.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

33.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

34.

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

35.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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

Thomas Fuller

40.

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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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Mark Twain

43.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

44.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

46.

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

Bible

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett