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

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Waitley, Denis

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

John Quincy Adams

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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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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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Menander of Athens

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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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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

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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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 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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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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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Pollock, Channing

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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.

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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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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid