Motivational Quotes

Courage

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Courage

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Hudson, William Henry

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.

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

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Plutarch

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

Horace

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Eco, Umberto

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Bible

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Bradley, Omar

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Thomson, James

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

Bible

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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

Pollock, Channing