Motivational Quotes

Courage

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Jean Paul Richter

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Mark Twain

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

King, Basil

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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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 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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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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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

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Thomson, James

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Tyger, Frank

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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