Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Corra Harris

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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

Smith, Sydney

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb

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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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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 follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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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.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

Plutarch

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Plutarch

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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 being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Adler, Freda

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

King, Basil

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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 advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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

Thomson, James