Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Bible

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ellinger, Jules

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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 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

24.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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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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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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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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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

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

Thomson, James

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Mark Twain

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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 timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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

Horace

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