Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

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

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

Jean Paul Richter

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Petit-Senn, John

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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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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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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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 is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Shakespeare, William

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De