Motivational Quotes

Courage

No one reaches a high position without daring.

- Syrus, Publilius

Best Quotes about Courage

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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

Jensen, Andrew

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

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

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.

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

Clare Booth Luce

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

10.

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

11.

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

Cicero

12.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

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.

14.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

15.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

16.

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

Mark Twain

17.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

18.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

19.

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

Taylor, Bayard

20.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

25.

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

26.

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

29.

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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'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

31.

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

32.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

35.

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.

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

William Shakespeare

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ovid

40.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

41.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

42.

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

Bible

43.

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

Forbes, B. C.

44.

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

45.

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

46.

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

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

48.

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

49.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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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