Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Bible

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Pollock, Channing

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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

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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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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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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

John Wayne

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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

Mark Twain

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disney, Walt

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

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

Kirby Larson

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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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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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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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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.