Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Twain, Mark

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

Churchill, Winston

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

John Wayne

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

12.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

14.

There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

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

Harold Wilson

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Bible

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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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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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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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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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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

32.

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

King, Basil

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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

Greville, Lord

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

William Shakespeare

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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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