Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

King, Basil

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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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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

20.

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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

Lao-Tzu

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Tyger, Frank

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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

Greville, Lord

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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.

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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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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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

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark