Motivational Quotes

Courage

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

- Regnard, Jean Francois

Best Quotes about Courage

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

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Corra Harris

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.

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.

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

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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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

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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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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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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

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

Disney, Walt

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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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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Luther, Martin

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

Mark Twain

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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

Bradley, Omar

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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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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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

Twain, Mark

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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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.

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul