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 consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

Zapata, Emiliano

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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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

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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

Voltaire

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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 can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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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.

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

William Shakespeare

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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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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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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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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.