Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Courage

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Seneca

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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

Carroll, Lewis

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Euripides

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

Young, Owen D.

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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.

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

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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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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Horace

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

Adler, Freda

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Bible

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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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

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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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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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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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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.