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

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.

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

Anouilh, Jean

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

10.

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

11.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

12.

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Mark Twain

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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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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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

18.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Valois, Margaret

20.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

25.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Plaut

29.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

30.

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

31.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

33.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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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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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 man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

Greville, Lord

41.

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

42.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Bible

47.

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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

49.

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 have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston