Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Plutarch

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bombeck, Erma

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Adler, Freda

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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

Voltaire

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Kirby Larson

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, 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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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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

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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.

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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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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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'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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard