Motivational Quotes

Courage

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Courage

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Plutarch

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

10.

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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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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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

13.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, 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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

19.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

William Shakespeare

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Twain, Mark

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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

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

Bible

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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

35.

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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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Greville, Lord

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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'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

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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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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Bradley, Omar

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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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Be larger than your task.