Motivational Quotes

Courage

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

- Sidney, Sir Philip

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bible

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Lawana Blackwell

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Voltaire

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

Euripides

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

Jean Paul Richter

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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

E. M. Forster

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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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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

Horace

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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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.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Clare Booth Luce

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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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