Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Courage

'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

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

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bible

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Evans, Richard L.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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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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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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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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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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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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Mark Twain

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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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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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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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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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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

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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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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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

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

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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

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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

Voltaire