Motivational Quotes

Courage

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

- Sidney, Sir Philip

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bible

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Churchill, Winston

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kirby Larson

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

19.

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

Brown, Les

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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 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

25.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

Greville, Lord

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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 dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

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

Luther, Martin

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

40.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

Shakespeare, William