Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Courage

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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.

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

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.

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 means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

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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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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

John Wayne

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Proverb

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Thomson, James

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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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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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

John Quincy Adams

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

Bradley, Omar

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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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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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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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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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.