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

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

John Wayne

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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.

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

Cicero

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Lao-Tzu

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Twain, Mark

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

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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 the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Valois, Margaret

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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 brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.