Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Taylor, Bayard

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Corra Harris

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

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

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Valois, Margaret

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

E. M. Forster

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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

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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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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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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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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

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

Euripides

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

Petit-Senn, John

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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

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Shakespeare, William

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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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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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth