Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about 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

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

Ovid

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Plutarch

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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!

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

10.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

12.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

13.

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

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Bible

19.

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.

20.

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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 is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

24.

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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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Plutarch

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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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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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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

40.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

41.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Smith, Sydney