Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Lao-Tzu

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

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

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'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

Sherman, William T.

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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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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

William Shakespeare

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Weininger, Ben

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bradley, Omar

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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

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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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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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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

Smith, Sydney

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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

Tyger, Frank

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan