Motivational Quotes

Courage

Fortune favors the brave.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Courage

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

Joel, Billy

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

Karr, Alphonse

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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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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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Cicero

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.