Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Johnson, John

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Zapata, Emiliano

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

10.

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

17.

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

18.

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

Bible

19.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

20.

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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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

23.

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

24.

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

Adler, Freda

25.

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

Thomas Fuller

26.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

27.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

28.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

29.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

30.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

31.

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

32.

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

33.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

34.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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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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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

39.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

41.

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

Shakespeare, William

42.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

43.

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

Thomson, James

44.

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

45.

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

Joel, Billy

46.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

47.

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

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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.

49.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek