Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Courage

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Jean Paul Richter

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Einstein, Albert

Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

10.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

11.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

12.

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

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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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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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 is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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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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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

20.

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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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

23.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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

Horace

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Greville, Lord

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

30.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Voltaire

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

36.

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Smith, Sydney

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

King, Basil

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma