Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Courage

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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

Bible

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

Eco, Umberto

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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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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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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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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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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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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.

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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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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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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

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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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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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Roosevelt, Theodore