Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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

Menander of Athens

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Luther, Martin

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Corra Harris

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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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

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

Euripides

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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]

Bible

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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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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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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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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Smith, Sydney

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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

Bible

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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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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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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mark Twain

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

Jean Paul Richter

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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