Motivational Quotes

Courage

The more wit the less courage.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Tyger, Frank

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Luce, Timothy

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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 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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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 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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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Plaut

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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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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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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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Pollock, Channing