Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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

E. M. Forster

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

Euripides

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Valois, Margaret

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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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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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Proverb

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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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.

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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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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Plutarch