Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Valois, Margaret

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Valois, Margaret

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

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

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Carnegie, Dale

10.

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

Horace

11.

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

12.

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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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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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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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

22.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

24.

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

Lao-Tzu

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Ellinger, Jules

28.

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

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

32.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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

E. M. Forster

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

Bible

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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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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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

46.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.