Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

William Shakespeare

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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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

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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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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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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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

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plutarch

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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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

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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'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

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Bible

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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 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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.