Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Courage

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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

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.

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

William Shakespeare

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

11.

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

12.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

13.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

15.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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

Sherman, William T.

19.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

John Wayne

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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

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

28.

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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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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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

34.

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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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

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

42.

There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Luther, Martin

47.

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

Evans, Richard L.

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy