Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage follows action.

- Douglas, Mack R.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Greville, Lord

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Valois, Margaret

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Shakespeare, William

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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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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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

21.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

E. M. Forster

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

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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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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Seneca

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Bradley, Omar

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

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

John Quincy Adams

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.