Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Zapata, Emiliano

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Plutarch

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Petit-Senn, John

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Pollock, Channing

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

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

Sherman, William T.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Mark Twain

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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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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

24.

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

Bible

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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 the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

33.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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

John Wayne

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Kirby Larson

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De