Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Collier, Jeremy

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

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

Clare Booth Luce

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.

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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

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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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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Smith, Sydney

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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

Valois, Margaret

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Shakespeare, William

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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

Bible

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Ellinger, Jules

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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