Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Sidney, Sir Philip

Best Quotes about Courage

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

Greville, Lord

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

Sherman, William T.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Valois, Margaret

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Weininger, Ben

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

King, Basil

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

John Wayne

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Luther, Martin

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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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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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Disney, Walt

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

Eco, Umberto

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen