Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Courage

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bradley, Omar

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.

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

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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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

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Lao-Tzu

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Mark Twain

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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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

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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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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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Anouilh, Jean