Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Courage

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Ovid

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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'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

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

Kirby Larson

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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.

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

Plaut

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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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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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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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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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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

E. M. Forster

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

Churchill, Winston

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Voltaire

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston