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

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

Petit-Senn, John

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Mark Twain

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bible

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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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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 easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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

Proverb

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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

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Johnson, John

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Plutarch

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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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

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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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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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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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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Smith, Sydney

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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