Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Courage

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

E. M. Forster

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Seneca

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

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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 consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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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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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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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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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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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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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.