Motivational Quotes

Courage

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Courage

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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?

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mark Twain

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

Bible

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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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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.

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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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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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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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

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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 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 is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Euripides

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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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.

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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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 and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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