Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Courage

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

Harold Wilson

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

Bible

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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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 conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Shakespeare, William

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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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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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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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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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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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

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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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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.

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Battista, D.A.

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Churchill, Winston

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.