Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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

Sherman, William T.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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

Young, Owen D.

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

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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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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

John Quincy Adams

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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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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Adler, Freda

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

Ovid

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

Weininger, Ben

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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.

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

Mark Twain

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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