Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Thomson, James

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Johnson, Samuel

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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

12.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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.

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Johnson, John

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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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

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Mark Twain

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Greville, Lord

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

41.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Horace

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

Twain, Mark

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

Evans, Richard L.

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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

48.

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

Eco, Umberto

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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

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

Mignon McLaughlin