Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

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

Disney, Walt

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Taylor, Bayard

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cicero

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

E. M. Forster

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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

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Greville, Lord

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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!