Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Twain, Mark

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Horace

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

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Hudson, William Henry

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Plutarch

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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

Shakespeare, William

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Kirby Larson

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Plaut

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch