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

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Ovid

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Corra Harris

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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

Cicero

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

John Wayne

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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.

Shoemaker, Willie

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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

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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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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

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