Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

- Earhart, Amelia

Best Quotes about Courage

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Corra Harris

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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

Mark Twain

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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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.

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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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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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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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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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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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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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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Bradley, Omar

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

Thomas Fuller

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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 burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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