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

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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

Seneca

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

Barton, Bruce

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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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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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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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

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

Greville, Lord

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

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

Voltaire

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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 would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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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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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

Valois, Margaret

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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 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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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

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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

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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

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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.