Motivational Quotes

Courage

'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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Bible

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

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

10.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

11.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

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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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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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

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

16.

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

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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 is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Battista, D.A.

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

28.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

29.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

30.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

31.

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

32.

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Corra Harris

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

Plaut

40.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

41.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Weininger, Ben

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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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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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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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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