Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Cervantes, Miguel De

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Twain, Mark

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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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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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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

Sherman, William T.

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

Thomas Fuller

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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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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Horace

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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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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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

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

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Mark Twain

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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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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

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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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

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

Plaut

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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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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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph