Motivational Quotes

Courage

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

- Carroll, Lewis

Best Quotes about Courage

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lawana Blackwell

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

10.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

11.

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

Valois, Margaret

12.

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

13.

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

Churchill, Winston

14.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

15.

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

Sherman, William T.

16.

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

17.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

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

Harold Wilson

19.

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

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

21.

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

Voltaire

22.

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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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 requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

25.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

26.

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

John Wayne

27.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

28.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

29.

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

30.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

33.

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

34.

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

Thomson, James

35.

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Shakespeare, William

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

40.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

42.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

43.

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

Corra Harris

44.

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

Disney, Walt

45.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

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

Johnson, John

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova