Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Churchill, Winston

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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

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

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

Karr, Alphonse

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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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

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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 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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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Seneca

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

William Shakespeare

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Euripides

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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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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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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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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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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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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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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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

King, Basil

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Disney, Walt

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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.