Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

King, Basil

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

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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

10.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

11.

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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

Bradley, Omar

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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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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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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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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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

24.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ellinger, Jules

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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

Menander of Athens

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Pollock, Channing

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

41.

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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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

Twain, Mark