Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Mark Twain

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

Weininger, Ben

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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

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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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

11.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 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 you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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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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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Mark Twain

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

Cervantes, Miguel De