Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

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

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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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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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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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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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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

Euripides

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Disney, Walt

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Horace

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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 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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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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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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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement