Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Valois, Margaret

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Weininger, Ben

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Greville, Lord

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Thomas Fuller

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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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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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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 and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Proverb

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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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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.