Motivational Quotes

Courage

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

- Lindbergh, Charles A.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Valois, Margaret

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Euripides

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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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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Bible

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

Bradley, Omar

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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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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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

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

Mark Twain

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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 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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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 is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Bradbury, Ray

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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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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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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.