Motivational Quotes

Courage

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

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

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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

Disney, Walt

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

Bernanos, Georges

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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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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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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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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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

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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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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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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Euripides

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Forbes, B. C.

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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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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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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