Motivational Quotes

Courage

The more wit the less courage.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Pollock, Channing

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Cicero

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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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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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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Ovid

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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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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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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 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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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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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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Seneca

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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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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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Shakespeare, William

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell