Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Eco, Umberto

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

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.

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

Harold Wilson

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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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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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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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

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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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Bible

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

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

Churchill, Winston

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.