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

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

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Jensen, Andrew

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Cicero

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Churchill, Winston

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Twain, Mark

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

32.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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 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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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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'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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Shakespeare, William

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