Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

Cicero

11.

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

12.

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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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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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

18.

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

Churchill, Winston

19.

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

20.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

21.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

22.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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

Jean Paul Richter

24.

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

Bible

25.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

26.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

27.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

28.

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

29.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

30.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

33.

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

34.

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

35.

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

36.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

John Wayne

38.

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

39.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

40.

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

Petit-Senn, John

41.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

42.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bernanos, Georges

45.

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

46.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

47.

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

Seneca

48.

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

49.

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon