Motivational Quotes

Courage

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Courage

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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

11.

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

Adler, Freda

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

19.

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

20.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

21.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Horace

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

25.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Twain, Mark

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Bible

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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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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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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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

49.

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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