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

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Horace

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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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

17.

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

Proverb

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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

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

23.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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.

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

Weininger, Ben

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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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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Carnegie, Dale

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Plutarch

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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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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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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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

William Shakespeare

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Voltaire

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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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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James