Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Courage

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Bible

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

E. M. Forster

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

Carroll, Lewis

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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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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Voltaire

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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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 fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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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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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Thomas Fuller

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Clare Booth Luce

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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 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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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Worsham, James A.