Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Courage

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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.

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

Adler, Freda

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Horace

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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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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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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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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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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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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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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Cicero

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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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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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Eco, Umberto

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

E. M. Forster

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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

Shakespeare, William

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Mark Twain