Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- King, Basil

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Plutarch

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.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eco, Umberto

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Ovid

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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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!

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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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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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Johnson, Samuel

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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.

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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