Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Ellinger, Jules

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

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

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Jean Paul Richter

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

John Wayne

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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

Harold Wilson

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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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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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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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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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'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

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Mark Twain

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

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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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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

William Shakespeare

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Luther, Martin

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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