Motivational Quotes

Courage

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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Best Quotes about Courage

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bible

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Plutarch

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

13.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

15.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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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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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

King, Basil

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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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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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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

William Shakespeare

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

Ovid

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

32.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Euripides

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

41.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.