Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- John Quincy Adams

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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.

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

Johnson, John

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Jean Paul Richter

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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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

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Euripides

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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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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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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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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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

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

Eco, Umberto

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

King, Basil

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

Valois, Margaret

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Bible

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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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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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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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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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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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.

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