Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Carroll, Lewis

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Carnegie, Dale

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

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

Greville, Lord

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

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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 more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Eco, Umberto

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Kirby Larson

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

Battista, D.A.

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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

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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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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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

Voltaire

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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.