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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Bradley, Omar

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than 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

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

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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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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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

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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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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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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Burke, Edmund

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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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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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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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 burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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.