Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

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

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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.

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

Hudson, William Henry

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Cicero

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Sherman, William T.

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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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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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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

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

John Wayne

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Lewis, Sinclair