Motivational Quotes

Courage

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

- Homer

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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

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

Thomas Fuller

Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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

Euripides

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Lao-Tzu

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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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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 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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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Tyger, Frank

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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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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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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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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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

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius