Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

10.

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

11.

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

12.

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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

Euripides

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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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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

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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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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

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

Proverb

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Adler, Freda

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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

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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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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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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Plutarch

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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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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sherman, William T.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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

Churchill, Winston

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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.