Motivational Quotes

Courage

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

- Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Horace

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

10.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Ovid

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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 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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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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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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Sherman, William T.

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

Thomas Fuller

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Voltaire

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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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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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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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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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert