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

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

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

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

10.

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

11.

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

12.

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

Shakespeare, William

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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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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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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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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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

19.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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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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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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

31.

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

Seneca

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

42.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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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