Quotes about courage

"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. on courage   

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

Lewis, Sinclair on courage   

"It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded."

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow on courage   

"Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?"

Lindbergh, Charles A. on courage   

"Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on courage   

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

Luce, Clare Boothe on courage   

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

Luce, Timothy on courage   

"Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!"

Luther, Martin on courage   

"Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other."

Macarthur, Douglas on courage
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"Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right."

Macleod, Norman on courage
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"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 on courage   

"To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can."

Mandino, Og on courage
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"Be larger than your task."

Marden, Orison Swett on courage   

"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 on courage   

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

Menander of Athens on courage   

"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 on courage   

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

Monson, Thomas S. on courage   

"The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage."

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De on courage
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"Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare."

Morris, Lewis on courage   

"To boldly go where no man has gone before."

TV series, Star Trek on courage   

"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 on courage   

"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 on courage
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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 on courage
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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

Nin, Anais on courage
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"Part of courage is simple consistency."

Noonan, Peggy on courage   

"As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead."

Norton, Andre on courage   

"The burden which is well borne becomes light."

Ovid on courage   

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

Ovid on courage   

"Fortune and love favor the brave."

Ovid on courage   

"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer."

Patton, George S. on courage
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"True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher."

Petit-Senn, John on courage
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"Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome."

Plaut on courage   

"Courage in danger is half the battle."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on courage   

"Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause."

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

Plutarch on courage   

"No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut."

Pollock, Channing on courage   

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

Proverb on courage   

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear."

Redmoon, Ambrose on courage
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"It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts."

Regnard, Jean Francois on courage