Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

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

Tyger, Frank

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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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

Luther, Martin

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

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

Euripides

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

Ovid

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

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

Weininger, Ben

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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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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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 finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Sherman, William T.

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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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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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Smith, Sydney

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle