Motivational Quotes

Courage

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Courage

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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

Euripides

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

Lao-Tzu

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

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

Adler, Freda

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

Thomson, James

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

11.

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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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

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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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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Horace

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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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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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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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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

33.

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

Disney, Walt

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

Cervantes, Miguel De