Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage follows action.

- Douglas, Mack R.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

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

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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

Smith, Sydney

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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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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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Proverb

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Adler, Freda

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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

Menander of Athens

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Churchill, Winston

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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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.

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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