Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Jean Paul Richter

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

Adler, Freda

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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

Plutarch

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

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

10.

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

12.

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

14.

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

15.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

16.

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

Einstein, Albert

17.

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

18.

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

19.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

20.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

21.

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

22.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

23.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

24.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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

28.

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

Carnegie, Dale

29.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

31.

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

Joel, Billy

32.

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

Plaut

33.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

34.

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.

35.

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

39.

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

40.

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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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

42.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

43.

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

46.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Bible

49.

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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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.