Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Proverb

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.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Harold Wilson

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

19.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ovid

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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Weininger, Ben

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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