Motivational Quotes

Courage

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

- Corra Harris

Best Quotes about Courage

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Plaut

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Valois, Margaret

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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.

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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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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Bible

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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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, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Twain, Mark

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

Anouilh, Jean

33.

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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.

39.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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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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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