Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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

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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

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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

Clare Booth Luce

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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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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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Petit-Senn, John

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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

Cicero

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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 advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.