Motivational Quotes

Courage

The more wit the less courage.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Courage

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Bible

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Corra Harris

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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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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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

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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

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Weininger, Ben

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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

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Jean Paul Richter

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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

Seneca

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Euripides

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Proverb

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Young, Owen D.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Disney, Walt

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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