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

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Shakespeare, William

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

E. M. Forster

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

Plutarch

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Adler, Freda

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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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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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

29.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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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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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Ovid

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

38.

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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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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 pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Valois, Margaret

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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

Euripides

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

Barton, Bruce