Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Bradley, Omar

Best Quotes about Courage

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

2.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

3.

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

4.

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

5.

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

Ellinger, Jules

6.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

7.

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

Hudson, William Henry

8.

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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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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.

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

Plaut

14.

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

15.

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

16.

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

Thomson, James

17.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

18.

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

19.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

21.

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

Eco, Umberto

22.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

23.

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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

26.

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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

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

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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

30.

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

Bible

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

34.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

35.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.