Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Courage

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Horace

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

Churchill, Winston

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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'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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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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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 acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Greville, Lord

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Bible

32.

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

Bible

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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's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

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

Seneca

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius