Motivational Quotes

Courage

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

- Menander

Best Quotes about Courage

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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

11.

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

Young, Owen D.

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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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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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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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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Greville, Lord

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Battista, D.A.

31.

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 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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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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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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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

39.

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

Luce, Timothy

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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Seneca

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.