Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Bernanos, Georges

Best Quotes about Courage

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

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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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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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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]

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Plaut

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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

Smith, Sydney

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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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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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

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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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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Tyger, Frank

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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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