Motivational Quotes

Courage

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Johnson, John

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Menander of Athens

'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

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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 cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Lawana Blackwell

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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

Thomson, James

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Seneca

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Twain, Mark

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

Churchill, Winston

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Bible

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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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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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

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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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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett