Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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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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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

John Wayne

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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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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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Mark Twain

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Twain, Mark

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Joel, Billy

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre