Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

'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

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Jensen, Andrew

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Zapata, Emiliano

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cicero

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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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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Twain, Mark

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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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

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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

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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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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]