Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Zapata, Emiliano

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

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

Harold Wilson

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Young, Owen D.

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Proverb

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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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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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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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

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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 is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Seneca

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

Euripides

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.