Motivational Quotes

Courage

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

- Collier, Jeremy

Best Quotes about Courage

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

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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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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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

E. M. Forster

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb

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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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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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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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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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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Harold Wilson

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

John Wayne

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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

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

Mark Twain