Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Greville, Lord

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

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

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

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

Euripides

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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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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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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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 is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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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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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Horace

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren