Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Greville, Lord

Best Quotes about Courage

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Mark Twain

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

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.

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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

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

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Petit-Senn, John

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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

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

William Shakespeare

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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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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Ovid

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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

Taylor, Bayard

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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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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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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

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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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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt