Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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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'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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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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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Shakespeare, William

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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 courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Mark Twain

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

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