Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

- Plutarch

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Jensen, Andrew

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

Churchill, Winston

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Young, Owen D.

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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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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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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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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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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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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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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'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

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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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.