Motivational Quotes

Courage

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Courage

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Taylor, Bayard

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Seneca

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

10.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

11.

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

William Shakespeare

12.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

17.

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

Bible

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

Valois, Margaret

19.

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

24.

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

Proverb

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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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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

John Wayne

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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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

33.

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

34.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Churchill, Winston

37.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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

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

Seneca

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Plutarch

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis