Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Luce, Timothy

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Seneca

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

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.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Sherman, William T.

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

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

Eco, Umberto

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Churchill, Winston

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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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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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Harold Wilson

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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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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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea