Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Thomas Fuller

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Johnson, John

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Churchill, Winston

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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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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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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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.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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

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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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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

John Quincy Adams

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

Shakespeare, William

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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