Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

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

E. M. Forster

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

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

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

Mark Twain

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Smith, Sydney

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

Thomson, James

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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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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Euripides

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

Valois, Margaret

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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

Brown, Les

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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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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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plutarch

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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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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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

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

Plutarch

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

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin