Motivational Quotes

Courage

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Courage

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ovid

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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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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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

John Wayne

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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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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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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

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

28.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Weininger, Ben

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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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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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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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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

40.

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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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Seneca

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