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

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Bible

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Mignon McLaughlin

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

John Wayne

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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

Seneca

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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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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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

29.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

30.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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

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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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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

Luce, Timothy

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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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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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy