Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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.

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

Johnson, Samuel

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Mark Twain

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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.

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Shakespeare, William

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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.

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Greville, Lord

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

Voltaire

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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

Bombeck, Erma

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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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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

Luther, Martin

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Euripides

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

Sherman, William T.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, 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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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Sidney, Sir Philip