Motivational Quotes

Courage

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Plutarch

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

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

Smith, Sydney

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ovid

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Tyger, Frank

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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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

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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

Horace

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George 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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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?

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

Euripides

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Greville, Lord

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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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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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William