Motivational Quotes

Courage

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Courage

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

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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

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

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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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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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!

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Shakespeare, William

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

E. M. Forster

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

Plaut

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cicero

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