Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Mark Twain

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Bradley, Omar

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'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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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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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Churchill, Winston

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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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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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Horace

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

Battista, D.A.

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Valois, Margaret

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel