Motivational Quotes

Courage

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

- Weininger, Ben

Best Quotes about Courage

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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

Twain, Mark

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

Thomson, James

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Cicero

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

Mark Twain

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

Tyger, Frank

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

Horace

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Euripides

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

Plutarch

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Anouilh, Jean

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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.