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

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Pollock, Channing

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

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Mark Twain

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Karr, Alphonse

13.

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

14.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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

16.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

17.

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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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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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

20.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

22.

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

23.

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

24.

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

25.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

26.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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

28.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

29.

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

Proverb

30.

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

Churchill, Winston

31.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

32.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

33.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

34.

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

Barton, Bruce

35.

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

Bradley, Omar

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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

39.

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

Bible

40.

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

41.

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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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

43.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

44.

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

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

46.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.