Motivational Quotes

Courage

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

- Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Lawana Blackwell

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Seneca

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

Ellinger, Jules

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Horace

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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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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 follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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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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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

Plutarch

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Taylor, Bayard

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo