Motivational Quotes

Courage

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

- Regnard, Jean Francois

Best Quotes about Courage

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

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

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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

Churchill, Winston

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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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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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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 would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

Barton, Bruce

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

Mark Twain

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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 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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea