Motivational Quotes

Courage

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

- Barton, Bruce

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bradbury, Ray

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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?

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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

John Quincy Adams

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Horace

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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

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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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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel