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

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

Shakespeare, William

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Greville, Lord

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Lao-Tzu

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

22.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Bible

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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 stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

Forbes, B. C.

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

30.

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

31.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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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

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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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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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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Twain, Mark

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

Eco, Umberto

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton