Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Luce, Timothy

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

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

10.

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

Cicero

11.

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

Valois, Margaret

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

13.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Adler, Freda

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

25.

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

26.

'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

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Euripides

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Johnson, John

31.

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

32.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Petit-Senn, John

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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.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bible

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

47.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin