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

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bernanos, Georges

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Kirby Larson

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Valois, Margaret

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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 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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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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

Shakespeare, William

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

John Wayne

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ovid

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]