Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Courage

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

E. M. Forster

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

Brown, Les

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

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

Bradley, Omar

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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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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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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

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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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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Plutarch

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

John Quincy Adams

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Carnegie, Dale

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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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

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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