Motivational Quotes

Courage

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

- Luce, Timothy

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

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

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, John

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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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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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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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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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

John Wayne

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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

Ovid

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

Karr, Alphonse

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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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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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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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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.