Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Courage

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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

Karr, Alphonse

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.

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.

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.

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

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Mark Twain

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bradley, Omar

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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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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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Weininger, Ben

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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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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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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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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

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius