Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Young, Owen D.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

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.

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

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

Harold Wilson

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

Proverb

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

20.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

22.

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

Worsham, James A.

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

25.

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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

45.

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.