Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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

Luce, Timothy

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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.

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.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

King, Basil

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

Euripides

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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

Cicero

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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

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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

Luther, Martin

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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 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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Seneca

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

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

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

E. M. Forster

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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