Motivational Quotes

Courage

'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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

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!

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

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

E. M. Forster

10.

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Valois, Margaret

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Bradley, Omar

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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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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Mark Twain

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Hudson, William Henry

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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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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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Johnson, Samuel

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Seneca

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.