Motivational Quotes

Courage

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

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

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Young, Owen D.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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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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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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

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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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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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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.

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Cicero

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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

Anouilh, Jean

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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