Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Zapata, Emiliano

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Luther, Martin

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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.

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Brown, Les

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

Bible

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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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.

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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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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

Bible

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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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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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire