Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Joel, Billy

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

Bible

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Evans, Richard L.

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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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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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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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

16.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

19.

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

20.

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

21.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

22.

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

23.

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

Cicero

24.

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

Mark Twain

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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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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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

32.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?