Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

Pollock, Channing

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Kirby Larson

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

Carroll, Lewis

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Greville, Lord

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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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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Voltaire

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

Proverb

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

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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 ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert