Motivational Quotes

Courage

The more wit the less courage.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

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

Bernanos, Georges

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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

Churchill, Winston

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Worsham, James A.

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Twain, Mark

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

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

Plaut

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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

Mark Twain

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

Battista, D.A.

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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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