Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Courage

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?

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

'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

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

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

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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

Cicero

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

Plaut

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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 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 leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

William Shakespeare

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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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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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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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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.