Motivational Quotes

Courage

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Courage

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

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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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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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Cicero

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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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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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Disney, Walt

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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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 lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Shakespeare, William

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Ovid

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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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.