Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Johnson, Lyndon B.

Best Quotes about Courage

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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

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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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

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

Joel, Billy

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

12.

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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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

15.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

17.

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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

Greville, Lord

19.

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

20.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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

John Wayne

24.

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

Johnson, John

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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 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

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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

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

34.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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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

41.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

42.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

43.

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

Churchill, Winston

45.

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.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Petit-Senn, John