Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Twain, Mark

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

Shakespeare, William

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo