Motivational Quotes

Courage

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

- TV series, Star Trek

Best Quotes about Courage

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Plaut

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

Collier, Jeremy

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

10.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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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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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Adler, Freda

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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

Bible

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

Mark Twain

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Evans, Richard L.

38.

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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

43.

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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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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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

48.

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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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.