Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Harold Wilson

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Seneca

10.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

11.

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

Plaut

12.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

13.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

14.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

15.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

16.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Cicero

20.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

21.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

22.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

23.

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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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

28.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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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

30.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

37.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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

Euripides

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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