Motivational Quotes

Courage

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Evans, Richard L.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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 not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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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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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Cicero

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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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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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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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

Petit-Senn, John

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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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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Euripides

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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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