Motivational Quotes

Courage

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

- Karr, Alphonse

Best Quotes about Courage

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

E. M. Forster

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Plaut

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

Bible

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

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

Luce, Timothy

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Disney, Walt

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

Voltaire

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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.

18.

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

John Quincy Adams

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

39.

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

Young, Owen D.

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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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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear