Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Petit-Senn, John

Best Quotes about Courage

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

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Johnson, Samuel

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Euripides

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 cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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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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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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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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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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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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

John Quincy Adams

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Mark Twain

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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 -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Anouilh, Jean

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Disney, Walt

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca