Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Courage

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Worsham, James A.

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

Cicero

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

Euripides

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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

Joel, Billy

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

10.

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?

11.

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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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Young, Owen D.

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

Shakespeare, William

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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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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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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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 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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Plutarch

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

Proverb

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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

Ovid

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges