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

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Battista, D.A.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Plutarch

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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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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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

Adler, Freda

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Disney, Walt

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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