Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Thomson, James

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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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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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

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Eco, Umberto

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

King, Basil

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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

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

Tyger, Frank

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Ovid

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Corra Harris

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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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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

Plutarch

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

Proverb

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

Shakespeare, William

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Twain, Mark