Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Proverb

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Luther, Martin

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

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

Young, Owen D.

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

William Shakespeare

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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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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Shakespeare, William

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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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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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Euripides

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

John Wayne

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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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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Richter, Jean Paul