Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Seneca

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Twain, Mark

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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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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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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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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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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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Greville, Lord

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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Eco, Umberto

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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

Voltaire

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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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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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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 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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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.