Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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 afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Corra Harris

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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

Voltaire

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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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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.

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Bible

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Twain, Mark

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Horace

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Twain, Mark

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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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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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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

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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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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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