Motivational Quotes

Courage

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Courage

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Ovid

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

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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

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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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 charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Twain, Mark

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

William Shakespeare

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

Joel, Billy

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.