Motivational Quotes

Courage

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

- Summers, David

Best Quotes about Courage

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Voltaire

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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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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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Churchill, Winston

23.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

William Shakespeare

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

26.

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

33.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Bible

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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

Seneca

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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

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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 never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

Collier, Jeremy

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