Motivational Quotes

Courage

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

- TV series, Star Trek

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Mark Twain

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

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

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Kirby Larson

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Clare Booth Luce

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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

Bible

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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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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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Horace

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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

Twain, Mark

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon