Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

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

Clare Booth Luce

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Johnson, John

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Churchill, Winston

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

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

Twain, Mark

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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

Joel, Billy

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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

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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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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

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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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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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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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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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'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.