Motivational Quotes

Courage

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

- Sherman, William T.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Mark Twain

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Euripides

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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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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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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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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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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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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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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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

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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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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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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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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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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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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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.