Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

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

Barton, Bruce

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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.

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.

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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Waitley, Denis

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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

Churchill, Winston

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Proverb

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

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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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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mark Twain

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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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.