Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Thomas Fuller

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Seneca

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

Cicero

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Taylor, Bayard

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Plaut

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

Plutarch

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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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

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Eco, Umberto

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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]

Bible

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.