Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Sherman, William T.

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

William Shakespeare

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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

Cicero

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Clare Booth Luce

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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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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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Seneca

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Battista, D.A.

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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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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

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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Fortune helps the brave.