Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Smith, Sydney

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

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

Tyger, Frank

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Bible

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.

10.

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

11.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

12.

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

Disney, Walt

13.

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

Bible

16.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

19.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

21.

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

22.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

23.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

24.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Luther, Martin

27.

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

28.

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

Kirby Larson

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

E. M. Forster

30.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

31.

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

Horace

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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

33.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

35.

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

36.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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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.

40.

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

41.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

45.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

46.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

48.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

49.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen