Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Valois, Margaret

Best Quotes about Courage

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Churchill, Winston

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

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Voltaire

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

Proverb

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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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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Menander of Athens

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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

Weininger, Ben

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

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

Kirby Larson

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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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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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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

King, Basil

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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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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

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

William Shakespeare