Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Voltaire

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

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Tyger, Frank

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Valois, Margaret

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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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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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Thomson, James

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Seneca

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

28.

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

29.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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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]

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

John Quincy Adams

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Young, Owen D.

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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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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Johnson, John

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

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