Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Euripides

'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

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

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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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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Petit-Senn, John

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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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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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

Proverb

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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.

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Ellinger, Jules

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Plutarch

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Valois, Margaret

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence