Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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.

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

William Shakespeare

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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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?

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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.

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.