Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

- Hunter, Howard W.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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.

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

Carnegie, Dale

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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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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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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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.

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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 is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

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

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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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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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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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