Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Proverb

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

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

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

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!

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Shakespeare, William

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.

10.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

11.

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

12.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Euripides

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

Mark Twain

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Kirby Larson

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

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

37.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

King, Basil

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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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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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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Plaut

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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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There's no substitute for guts.