Motivational Quotes

Courage

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

- Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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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

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Carnegie, Dale

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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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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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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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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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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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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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

Greville, Lord

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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 scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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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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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.