Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Zapata, Emiliano

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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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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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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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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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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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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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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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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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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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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

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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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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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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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Cicero

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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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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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Churchill, Winston