Motivational Quotes

Courage

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

- Graham, James

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

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

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.

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

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

11.

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

12.

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

E. M. Forster

13.

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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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

18.

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

Disney, Walt

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

Smith, Sydney

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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 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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Plutarch

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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 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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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

32.

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Proverb

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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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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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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Euripides

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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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.

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

48.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

49.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler