Motivational Quotes

Courage

What a new face courage puts on everything!

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

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

E. M. Forster

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Forbes, B. C.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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.

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

Luther, Martin

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

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Mark Twain

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

Bradley, Omar

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Worsham, James A.

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

Corra Harris

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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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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Seneca

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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 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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Bible

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Disney, Walt

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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