Motivational Quotes

Courage

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

- Homer

Best Quotes about Courage

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Churchill, Winston

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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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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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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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

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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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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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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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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Shakespeare, William

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

Disney, Walt

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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 is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre