Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Zapata, Emiliano

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Johnson, Samuel

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

10.

There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Battista, D.A.

12.

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Taylor, Bayard

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

16.

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

17.

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

18.

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

19.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

20.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

21.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

22.

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

Bible

23.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

24.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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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

26.

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

27.

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

Bible

28.

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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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

30.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

31.

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

32.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

34.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bible

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

40.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

41.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

42.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

44.

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

Bradbury, Ray

45.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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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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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William