Motivational Quotes

Courage

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Lawana Blackwell

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bradley, Omar

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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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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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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Churchill, Winston

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Young, Owen D.

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

40.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

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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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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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Ovid

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

E. M. Forster

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo