Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Greville, Lord

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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

11.

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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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Cicero

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Burke, Edmund

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Forbes, B. C.

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