Motivational Quotes

Courage

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

- Thomas Fuller

Best Quotes about Courage

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Horace

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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

Mark Twain

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

Luther, Martin

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mark Twain

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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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

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

Bible

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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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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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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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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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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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 means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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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