Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

- Hunter, Howard W.

Best Quotes about Courage

There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Proverb

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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

Greville, Lord

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

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

William Shakespeare

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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.

14.

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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

16.

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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

18.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

19.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

22.

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

25.

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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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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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Anouilh, Jean

39.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

Bible

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

Valois, Margaret

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

E. M. Forster

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.