Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Greville, Lord

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mark Twain

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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.

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

23.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Eco, Umberto

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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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 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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

44.

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

Corra Harris

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence