Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

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Best Quotes about Courage

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Jean Paul Richter

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

Tyger, Frank

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Euripides

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

John Quincy Adams

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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.

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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!

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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

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Bible

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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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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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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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Shakespeare, William

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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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.

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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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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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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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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Pollock, Channing

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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