Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Einstein, Albert

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Churchill, Winston

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kirby Larson

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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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

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

Battista, D.A.

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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?

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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

Voltaire

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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

Eco, Umberto

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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

Seneca

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Clare Booth Luce

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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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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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.