Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about 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

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Plutarch

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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

17.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

18.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

19.

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

Corra Harris

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

Lao-Tzu

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

Greville, Lord

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

28.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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

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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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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Clare Booth Luce

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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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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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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

Forrestal, James V.

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.