Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Courage

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Lao-Tzu

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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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

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Battista, D.A.

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Churchill, Winston

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Euripides

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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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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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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

Carnegie, Dale

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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 is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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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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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

King Jr. Martin Luther