Motivational Quotes

Courage

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Mark Twain

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Einstein, Albert

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Ovid

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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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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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

Ovid

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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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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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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

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Sherman, William T.

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Luther, Martin

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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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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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

Plaut

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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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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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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De