Motivational Quotes

Courage

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

- Regnard, Jean Francois

Best Quotes about Courage

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Greville, Lord

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

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Sherman, William T.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Corra Harris

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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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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Churchill, Winston

24.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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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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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

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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.

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Kirby Larson

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.