Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Zapata, Emiliano

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Twain, Mark

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Jensen, Andrew

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

Johnson, Samuel

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

10.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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

13.

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

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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

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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

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

Smith, Sydney

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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

Corra Harris

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

Disney, Walt

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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.

32.

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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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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

E. M. Forster

35.

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

Luther, Martin

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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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

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

49.

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Voltaire