Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Forbes, B. C.

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

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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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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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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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.

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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

Lao-Tzu

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Hudson, William Henry

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Twain, Mark

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

Twain, Mark

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

Seneca

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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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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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Plaut

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

Bradley, Omar

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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