Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Courage

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Thomson, James

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

Luce, Timothy

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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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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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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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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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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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

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Kirby Larson

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

William Shakespeare

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Twain, Mark

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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.

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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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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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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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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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