Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about Courage

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Horace

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.

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.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

Euripides

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Disney, Walt

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

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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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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Voltaire

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

Valois, Margaret

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Churchill, Winston

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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

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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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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.

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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

Corra Harris

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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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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Twain, Mark