Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Courage

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

10.

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

Harold Wilson

11.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

12.

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

Valois, Margaret

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

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

John Quincy Adams

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

18.

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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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

20.

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

E. M. Forster

21.

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

23.

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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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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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

28.

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

Brown, Les

29.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

30.

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

31.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

32.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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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

36.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

38.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

43.

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

Greville, Lord

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

Mark Twain

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

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