Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Lao-Tzu

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

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

Adler, Freda

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

Mark Twain

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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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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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 brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Clare Booth Luce

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Kirby Larson

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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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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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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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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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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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

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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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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's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Disney, Walt

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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 only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Battista, D.A.