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

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

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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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 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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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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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

John Quincy Adams

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

Horace

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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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

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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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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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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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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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

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

Smith, Sydney

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Ovid