Motivational Quotes

Courage

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Courage

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Plutarch

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Jean Paul Richter

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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

Bradley, Omar

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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 and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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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

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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

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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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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Battista, D.A.

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

John Wayne

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

Bible

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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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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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