Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Tyger, Frank

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Proverb

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

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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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

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Eco, Umberto

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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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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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Twain, Mark

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Mark Twain

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Luther, Martin