Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Bovee, Christian Nevell

Best Quotes about Courage

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Luther, Martin

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Menander of Athens

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Carnegie, Dale

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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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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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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 going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Plutarch

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

Greville, Lord

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Plutarch

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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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bernanos, Georges

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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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?

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

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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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