Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Courage

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mark Twain

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Sherman, William T.

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

Plutarch

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

Johnson, John

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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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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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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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.

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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'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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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

John Wayne

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Joel, Billy

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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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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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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

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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What a new face courage puts on everything!