Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Courage

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Weininger, Ben

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Ovid

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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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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

Seneca

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

William Shakespeare

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

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Mark Twain

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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

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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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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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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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 has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

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

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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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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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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

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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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!

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Twain, Mark

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

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