Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

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

Harold Wilson

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

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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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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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

Bible

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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 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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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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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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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

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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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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Eco, Umberto

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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.

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.