Motivational Quotes

Courage

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

- Homer

Best Quotes about Courage

'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

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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

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.

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

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Plaut

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Voltaire

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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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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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

21.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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

Disney, Walt

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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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

28.

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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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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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

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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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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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

Thomas Fuller

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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