Motivational Quotes

Courage

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

- Luce, Timothy

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Bernanos, Georges

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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

Ovid

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Seneca

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Euripides

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

Sherman, William T.

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

Thomas Fuller

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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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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

William Shakespeare

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