Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Taylor, Bayard

Best Quotes about Courage

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

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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.

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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

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]

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

John Wayne

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

Luther, Martin

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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]

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Twain, Mark

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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 like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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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

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

Voltaire

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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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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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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

Seneca

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander