Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Euripides

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

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eco, Umberto

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Joel, Billy

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

Twain, Mark

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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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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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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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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

Voltaire

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Adler, Freda