Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Kirby Larson

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

Luce, Timothy

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

Tyger, Frank

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

Seneca

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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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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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Plutarch

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

Brown, Les

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

Voltaire

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

Bradley, Omar

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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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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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

John Wayne

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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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

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

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo