Motivational Quotes

Courage

Fortune helps the brave.

- Terence

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

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

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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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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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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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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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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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 burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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.