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

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

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

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Luther, Martin

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

Weininger, Ben

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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

Collier, Jeremy

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

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

John Wayne

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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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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

20.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Sherman, William T.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Greville, Lord

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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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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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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

Thomas Fuller

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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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 like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

William Shakespeare

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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!