Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Courage

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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 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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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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 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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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Euripides

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

Plaut

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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

Taylor, Bayard

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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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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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose