Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- E. M. Forster

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Johnson, John

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

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

Luther, Martin

13.

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

14.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

23.

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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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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

Bible

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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

Bible

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

Mark Twain

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Plaut

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Bradley, Omar

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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

46.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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