Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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

Greville, Lord

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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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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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

John Quincy Adams

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Bible

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.