Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Evans, Richard L.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

Johnson, Samuel

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Thomson, James

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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 is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

Clare Booth Luce