Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Karr, Alphonse

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Twain, Mark

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

Disney, Walt

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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

Adler, Freda

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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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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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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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

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

31.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Greville, Lord

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb

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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 that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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 real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Plaut

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Seneca

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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

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.