Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Johnson, John

Best Quotes about Courage

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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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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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

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