Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Courage

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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

Shakespeare, William

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

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

Kirby Larson

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

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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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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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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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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Eco, Umberto

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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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 conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Greville, Lord

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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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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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

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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