Motivational Quotes

Courage

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

- Luce, Timothy

Best Quotes about Courage

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Bible

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Twain, Mark

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

12.

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

Pollock, Channing

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

14.

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

Johnson, John

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

27.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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

Seneca

29.

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

30.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

31.

'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

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

Voltaire

34.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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 a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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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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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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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Plutarch

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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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.

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.