Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Richter, Jean Paul

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Twain, Mark

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

Anouilh, Jean

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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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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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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

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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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