Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Twain, Mark

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Proverb

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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.

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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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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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.

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Twain, Mark

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

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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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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

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.