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

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Twain, Mark

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

Johnson, Samuel

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

11.

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

E. M. Forster

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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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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

Ovid

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

18.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Churchill, Winston

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Bible

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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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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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

Valois, Margaret

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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 decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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