Motivational Quotes

Courage

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

- E. M. Forster

Best Quotes about Courage

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

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

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

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Mark Twain

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Kirby Larson

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Cicero

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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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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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

Greville, Lord

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Plaut

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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 pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Seneca

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.