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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

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

Tyger, Frank

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

John Quincy Adams

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Weininger, Ben

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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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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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

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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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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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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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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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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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 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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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Twain, Mark

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.