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

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

Churchill, Winston

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Einstein, Albert

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Mark Twain

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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.

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

Proverb

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Euripides

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Horace

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova