Motivational Quotes

Courage

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

- Nin, Anais

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Bible

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

E. M. Forster

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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

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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Clare Booth Luce

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

16.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Horace

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Churchill, Winston

25.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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.

34.

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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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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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Euripides

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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

40.

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

Plaut

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

Mark Twain

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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