Motivational Quotes

Courage

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Courage

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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

William Shakespeare

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

Lao-Tzu

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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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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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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.

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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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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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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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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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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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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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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.