Motivational Quotes

Courage

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Karr, Alphonse

'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

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

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Cicero

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

Petit-Senn, John

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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Seneca

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Greville, Lord

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

Jean Paul Richter

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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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.

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Twain, Mark

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

Mignon McLaughlin