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

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

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Cicero

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bible

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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

Ovid

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Horace

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

Shakespeare, William

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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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

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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 put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.