Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Thomas Fuller

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

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?

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

10.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

14.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

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

Johnson, John

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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 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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

King, Basil

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle