Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Bonaparte, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Courage

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

Young, Owen D.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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.

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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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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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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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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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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.

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

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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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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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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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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Mark Twain

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

Barton, Bruce

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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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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Seneca

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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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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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