Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Jean Paul Richter

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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 shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

King, Basil

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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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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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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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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Seneca

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

Ovid

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

33.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Plaut

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Voltaire

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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

Petit-Senn, John

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lao-Tzu