Motivational Quotes

Courage

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

- Zapata, Emiliano

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bible

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

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

Mark Twain

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

10.

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

11.

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

Valois, Margaret

12.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

13.

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

Smith, Sydney

14.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

18.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

19.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

Eco, Umberto

24.

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

25.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Bradley, Omar

31.

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

32.

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

33.

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

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.

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

Voltaire

37.

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

Thomas Fuller

38.

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

39.

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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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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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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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

43.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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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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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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

49.

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

Bible

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David