Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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.

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

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Mark Twain

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

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

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

John Quincy Adams

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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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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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Thomas Fuller

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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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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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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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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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 test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.