Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Tyger, Frank

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Plaut

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Seneca

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Plutarch

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

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

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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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 courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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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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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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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark