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

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mark Twain

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

Bible

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Zapata, Emiliano

'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

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

Shakespeare, William

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

11.

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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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 charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

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

Weininger, Ben

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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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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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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

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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.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Young, Owen D.

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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

Euripides

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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 a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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