Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Cicero

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

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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

Sherman, William T.

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.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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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Valois, Margaret

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Bible

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

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

John Wayne

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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

Greville, Lord

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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 great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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

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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