Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Jean Paul Richter

Best Quotes about Courage

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Euripides

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Eco, Umberto

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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

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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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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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

Young, Owen D.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Greville, Lord

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De