Motivational Quotes

Courage

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

- King, Basil

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Johnson, John

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.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Barton, Bruce

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

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

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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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Mark Twain

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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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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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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 finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

Hudson, William Henry

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Euripides

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

Bible

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished