Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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

Voltaire

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Thomas Fuller

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

King, Basil

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

Harold Wilson

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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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.

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Bible

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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