Motivational Quotes

Courage

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

- Bradley, Omar

Best Quotes about Courage

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Tyger, Frank

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

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

10.

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

Shakespeare, William

11.

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Young, Owen D.

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

25.

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

Greville, Lord

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

28.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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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

32.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

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

E. M. Forster

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Samuel

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

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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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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda