Motivational Quotes

Courage

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Taylor, Bayard

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

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

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

John Quincy Adams

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

Euripides

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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

Carnegie, Dale

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Cicero

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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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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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Johnson, John

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bible

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

Ovid

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

Battista, D.A.

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Bradley, Omar

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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 an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Collier, Jeremy