Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Hudson, William Henry

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

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

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Johnson, John

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

12.

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Weininger, Ben

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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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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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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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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

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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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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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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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 a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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