Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Ellinger, Jules

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb

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

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.

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Adler, Freda

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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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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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Mark Twain

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

Anouilh, Jean

23.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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

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

Kirby Larson

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

Corra Harris

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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 strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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