Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Tyger, Frank

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

Johnson, John

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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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.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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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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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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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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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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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 is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Proverb

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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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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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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bombeck, Erma

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius