Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Mark Twain

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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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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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Twain, Mark

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

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 is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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

Twain, Mark

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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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.

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Luce, Timothy

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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 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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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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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Ovid

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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