Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Cicero

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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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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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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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Weininger, Ben

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

William Shakespeare

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Corra Harris

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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

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano