Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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

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

Plutarch

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Mark Twain

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

Weininger, Ben

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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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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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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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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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 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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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Shakespeare, William

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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?

30.

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Tyger, Frank

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Cicero

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.