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

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

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Plaut

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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.

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

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

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Greville, Lord

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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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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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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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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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

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