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

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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

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

10.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

11.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

12.

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

Churchill, Winston

13.

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

15.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

16.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

17.

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

18.

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

Adler, Freda

19.

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.

20.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

24.

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

25.

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

26.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

29.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

30.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

31.

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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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

33.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

36.

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

William Shakespeare

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

41.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

42.

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

Forbes, B. C.

43.

'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

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

45.

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

Thomson, James

46.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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

48.

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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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