Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Thomas Fuller

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Valois, Margaret

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Kirby Larson

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Horace

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

Churchill, Winston

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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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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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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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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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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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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

Cicero

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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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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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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