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

Twain, Mark

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

Carnegie, Dale

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.

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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

Seneca

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

10.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

11.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

12.

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

13.

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

Lao-Tzu

14.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

18.

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.

19.

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

20.

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Cicero

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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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 consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

29.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

30.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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'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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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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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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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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

45.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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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