Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Joel, Billy

Best Quotes about Courage

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Bible

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

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

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

11.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

13.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

14.

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

Johnson, John

15.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Plutarch

17.

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

Mark Twain

18.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

19.

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

20.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

21.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Ovid

25.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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

27.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

28.

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

Greville, Lord

30.

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

Lao-Tzu

31.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

33.

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

Bombeck, Erma

34.

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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

37.

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

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

42.

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

43.

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

44.

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

Pollock, Channing

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

48.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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!