Motivational Quotes

Courage

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

- Plaut

Best Quotes about Courage

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Shakespeare, William

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

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

Jean Paul Richter

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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

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

Horace

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

13.

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 enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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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 advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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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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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Euripides

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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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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Thomas Fuller

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Seneca

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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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.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Ovid

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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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

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

Weininger, Ben

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.