Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about Courage

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

Ovid

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

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

Young, Owen D.

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Jensen, Andrew

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

Churchill, Winston

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

John Quincy Adams

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Anouilh, Jean

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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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 consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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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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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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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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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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

Twain, Mark

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Mark Twain

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

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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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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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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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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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Kirby Larson

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Taylor, Elizabeth