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

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

Twain, Mark

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

'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

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Young, Owen D.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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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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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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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

William Shakespeare

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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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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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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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

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Shakespeare, William

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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

42.

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 acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Plutarch