Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Thomas Fuller

Best Quotes about Courage

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Barton, Bruce

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

Carlyle, Thomas

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Battista, D.A.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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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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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Bible

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'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

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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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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Plutarch

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

Johnson, John

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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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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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bradley, Omar

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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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

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Voltaire

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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