Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Menander of Athens

Best Quotes about Courage

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Joel, Billy

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.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Johnson, Samuel

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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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.

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

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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 timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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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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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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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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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Hudson, William Henry

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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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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

Mark Twain

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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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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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

Anouilh, Jean

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.