Motivational Quotes

Courage

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

- Regnard, Jean Francois

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Jean Paul Richter

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Plutarch

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

Churchill, Winston

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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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.

22.

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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

Johnson, Samuel

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Mark Twain

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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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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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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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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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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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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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Twain, Mark

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.