Motivational Quotes

Courage

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

- Homer

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

Voltaire

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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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

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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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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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Proverb