Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

Mark Twain

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

Voltaire

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Adler, Freda

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

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

10.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

11.

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

12.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

13.

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

Smith, Sydney

14.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

Euripides

20.

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

21.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

22.

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

Twain, Mark

24.

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

Kirby Larson

25.

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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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 conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

28.

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 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

30.

'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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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

32.

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.

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

35.

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

Bible

37.

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

Pollock, Channing

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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

40.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

41.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

42.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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

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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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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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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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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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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

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer