Motivational Quotes

Courage

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

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

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

Horace

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

E. M. Forster

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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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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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

30.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Cicero

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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 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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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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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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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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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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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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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell