Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Courage

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

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Twain, Mark

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Horace

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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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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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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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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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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.

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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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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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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'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

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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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

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Bible

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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 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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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bible

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

Roosevelt, Theodore