Motivational Quotes

Courage

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Best Quotes about Courage

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

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

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

Bible

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

William Shakespeare

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

Twain, Mark

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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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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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Taylor, Bayard

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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

Anouilh, Jean

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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

28.

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

Bible

29.

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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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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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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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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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Twain, Mark

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

Euripides

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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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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

Carnegie, Dale