Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

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

Euripides

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.

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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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 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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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

Plaut

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Churchill, Winston

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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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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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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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

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

Battista, D.A.

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

Luther, Martin

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean