Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

1.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

2.

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

Ovid

3.

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

Pollock, Channing

4.

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

5.

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

Proverb

6.

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

7.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

8.

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

Shakespeare, William

9.

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

10.

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

Cicero

11.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

12.

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

Collier, Jeremy

13.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

14.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

15.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

16.

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

17.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

20.

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

21.

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

22.

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

23.

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

Young, Owen D.

24.

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

25.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

27.

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

28.

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

Forbes, B. C.

29.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

30.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

31.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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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

34.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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

36.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

37.

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

38.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

39.

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

40.

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

41.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

42.

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

Jean Paul Richter

43.

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

44.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

48.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

49.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston