Motivational Quotes

Courage

'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

Best Quotes about Courage

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eco, Umberto

'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

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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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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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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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

20.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Mark Twain

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Weininger, Ben

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Thomas Fuller

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

33.

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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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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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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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Bible

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

43.

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

Lao-Tzu

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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

Menander of Athens

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen