Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Luther, Martin

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

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

Plutarch

12.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

13.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

14.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

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

17.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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.

21.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

22.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

23.

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

Johnson, John

24.

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

25.

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

Lawana Blackwell

26.

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

Bernanos, Georges

27.

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.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Carnegie, Dale

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Seneca

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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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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.

34.

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb

37.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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?

39.

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

Thomson, James

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

Monson, Thomas S.

43.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Petit-Senn, John

45.

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

Valois, Margaret

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.