Motivational Quotes

Courage

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

- Menander

Best Quotes about Courage

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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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

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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

Shakespeare, William

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Battista, D.A.

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Kennedy, Robert F.