Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Churchill, Winston

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Eco, Umberto

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Anouilh, Jean

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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

Cicero

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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

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

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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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

31.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Euripides

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Greville, Lord

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Karr, Alphonse

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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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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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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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

49.

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo