Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Courage

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

Adler, Freda

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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

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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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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

Shakespeare, William

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Joel, Billy

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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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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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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

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

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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

Valois, Margaret

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

John Wayne

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Smith, Sydney

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.