Motivational Quotes

Courage

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Richter, Jean Paul

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Jean Paul Richter

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Proverb

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

William Shakespeare

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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

King, Basil

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Harold Wilson

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Clare Booth Luce

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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 more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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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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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Tyger, Frank