Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Ellinger, Jules

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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

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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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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.

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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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.

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

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

Cicero

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Luce, Timothy

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Twain, Mark