Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Taylor, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Plutarch

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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

Twain, Mark

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Ovid

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.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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 like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

Luther, Martin

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Cicero, Marcus 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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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

Worsham, James A.

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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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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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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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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

Voltaire

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

Ellinger, Jules

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