Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

John Wayne

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

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

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.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Worsham, James A.

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

Shakespeare, William

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Thomson, James

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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

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Voltaire

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

32.

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

Corra Harris

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

Petit-Senn, John

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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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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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

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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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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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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 more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas