Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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 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

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

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

Plutarch

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

William Shakespeare

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

Mark Twain

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

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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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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

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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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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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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