Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Courage

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Thomas Fuller

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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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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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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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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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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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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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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 more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Seneca

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Ovid

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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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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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