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

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

Thomas Fuller

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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

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

Bradbury, Ray

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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 is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Churchill, Winston

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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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

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Twain, Mark

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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 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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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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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.