Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Seneca

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

Valois, Margaret

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Twain, Mark

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Thomas Fuller

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

William Shakespeare

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Ovid

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Johnson, Samuel

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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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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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.