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

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Bernanos, Georges

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

William Shakespeare

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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

Weininger, Ben

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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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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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 leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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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 takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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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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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Cicero

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.