Motivational Quotes

Courage

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

- Kirby Larson

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

King, Basil

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

John Wayne

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Ellinger, Jules

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Weininger, Ben

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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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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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

Ovid

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

Carnegie, Dale

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Seneca

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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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.

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

Euripides

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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

Mark Twain

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

E. M. Forster

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

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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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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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 follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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 is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie