Motivational Quotes

Courage

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

- Summers, David

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bible

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

14.

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

15.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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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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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

19.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

20.

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

Bible

21.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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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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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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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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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

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

Plutarch

29.

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

Johnson, John

30.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

31.

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

32.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

33.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

34.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

35.

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

36.

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

Taylor, Bayard

37.

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

E. M. Forster

38.

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

39.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

40.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

41.

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

42.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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

Hudson, William Henry

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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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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

50.

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

Adler, Freda