Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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

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

Shakespeare, William

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Ovid

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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

Johnson, Samuel

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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'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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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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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Twain, Mark

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Kirby Larson

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea