Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Mark Twain

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

Greville, Lord

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Luther, Martin

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

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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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.

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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

Disney, Walt

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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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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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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 man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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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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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

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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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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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu