Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Seneca

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

'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

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Barton, Bruce

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

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Greville, Lord

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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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

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

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

Sherman, William T.

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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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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 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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Cicero

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Eco, Umberto

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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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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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John