Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Zapata, Emiliano

Best Quotes about Courage

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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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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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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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 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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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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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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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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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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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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Mark Twain

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

Bradley, Omar

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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