Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Karr, Alphonse

Best Quotes about Courage

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

Menander of Athens

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

Karr, Alphonse

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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

Corra Harris

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

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

Voltaire

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

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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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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

20.

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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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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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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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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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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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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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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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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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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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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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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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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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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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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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Worsham, James A.

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

Bradley, Omar

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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

Kirby Larson

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished