Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Courage

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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.

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

Twain, Mark

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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 is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Sherman, William T.

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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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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

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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

Euripides

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

Harold Wilson

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Plutarch

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Greville, Lord

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Corra Harris

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.