Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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 more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mignon McLaughlin

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

13.

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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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

Proverb

17.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Pollock, Channing

24.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Shakespeare, William

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

29.

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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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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

William Shakespeare

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

Plutarch

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

Greville, Lord

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

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

Lao-Tzu

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

42.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Valois, Margaret

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Schuller, Robert H.