Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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.

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

Thomson, James

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

Seneca

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

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Euripides

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

Mark Twain

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Tyger, Frank

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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.

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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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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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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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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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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.