Motivational Quotes

Courage

Fortune helps the brave.

- Terence

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Shakespeare, William

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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

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

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

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

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Hudson, William Henry

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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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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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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.

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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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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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Greville, Lord

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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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 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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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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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

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo