Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Courage

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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

Proverb

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

11.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

13.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Twain, Mark

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Clare Booth Luce

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

28.

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.

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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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.

37.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Joel, Billy

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

King, Basil

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cicero

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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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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave