Motivational Quotes

Courage

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Seneca

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Collier, Jeremy

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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.

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

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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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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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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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Mark Twain

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

Petit-Senn, John

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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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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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

Twain, Mark

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bible

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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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