Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

Seneca

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

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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.

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Horace

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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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 is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Clare Booth Luce

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

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

Seneca

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

33.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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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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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Bible

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.