Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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

Plutarch

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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

Proverb

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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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

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

Horace

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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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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Bombeck, Erma

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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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

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Voltaire

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

King, Basil

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Twain, Mark

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.