Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Bible

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Weininger, Ben

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Bible

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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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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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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

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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 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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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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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Twain, Mark

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