Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Zapata, Emiliano

Best Quotes about Courage

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Thomson, James

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

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

Weininger, Ben

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Plaut

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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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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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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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

Mark Twain

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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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 guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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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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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

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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.

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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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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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