Motivational Quotes

Courage

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

- Johnson, John

Best Quotes about Courage

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Carnegie, Dale

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Proverb

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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 not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Horace

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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

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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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

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

Mark Twain

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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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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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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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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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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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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

E. M. Forster

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

Shakespeare, William

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

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

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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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.

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

Churchill, Winston

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia