Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Weininger, Ben

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

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

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Tyger, Frank

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

Schuller, Robert H.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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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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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

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Shakespeare, William

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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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

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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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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Carnegie, Dale

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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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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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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

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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

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

Seneca

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Mark Twain

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

Shakespeare, William

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished