Motivational Quotes

Courage

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Courage

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

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

Menander of Athens

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

Disney, Walt

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.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Smith, Sydney

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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 acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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

Taylor, Bayard

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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

Shakespeare, William

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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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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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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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

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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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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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

Thomson, James

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Johnson, John

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

Voltaire

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon