Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Cicero

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

Anouilh, Jean

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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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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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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'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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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 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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Churchill, Winston

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

Proverb

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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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