Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Seneca

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

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Kirby Larson

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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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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

E. M. Forster

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Ovid

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

Proverb

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Mark Twain

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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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

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell