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

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Thomas Fuller

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Bible

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mark Twain

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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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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.