Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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

Harold Wilson

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Mark Twain

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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 spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Bible

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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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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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.

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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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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius