Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- King, Basil

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Twain, Mark

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

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Barton, Bruce

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

Joel, Billy

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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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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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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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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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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Seneca

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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 going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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

Mark Twain

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

Bible

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

Corra Harris

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Shakespeare, William

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.