Motivational Quotes

Courage

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Courage

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

10.

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

11.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

12.

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

Waitley, Denis

13.

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

Churchill, Winston

14.

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

15.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

16.

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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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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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.

23.

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

John Wayne

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

Proverb

25.

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

Shakespeare, William

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

30.

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

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

Euripides

32.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

34.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

35.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

37.

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

38.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

39.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

40.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

43.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Luther, Martin

46.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

49.

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

Mignon McLaughlin