Motivational Quotes

Courage

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

- Menander

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Valois, Margaret

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Seneca

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

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

10.

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

11.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

13.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

15.

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

16.

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

Twain, Mark

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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

21.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

22.

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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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

24.

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

25.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

27.

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

28.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

30.

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

31.

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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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.

33.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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

40.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

'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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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

43.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

44.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

45.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

E. M. Forster

48.

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

Lawana Blackwell