Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Carnegie, Dale

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Plaut

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

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Churchill, Winston

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Luther, Martin

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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

Lawana Blackwell

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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

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