Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Joel, Billy

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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

Carnegie, Dale

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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.

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

Bombeck, Erma

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Hudson, William Henry

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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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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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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

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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

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Weininger, Ben

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Evans, Richard L.

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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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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

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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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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.