Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

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

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

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

Proverb

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

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

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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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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Adler, Freda

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Eco, Umberto

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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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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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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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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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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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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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.

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Petit-Senn, John

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Flaubert, Gustave

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carroll, Lewis

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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