Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Euripides

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

Carnegie, Dale

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

Churchill, Winston

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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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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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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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Bradbury, Ray

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Petit-Senn, John

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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

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

Menander of Athens

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

Horace

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Jean Paul Richter

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Greville, Lord

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.