Motivational Quotes

Courage

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

- Ellinger, Jules

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Bible

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Shakespeare, William

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

Twain, Mark

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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 under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Greville, Lord

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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 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

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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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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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

Horace

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Menander of Athens

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William