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

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

Taylor, Bayard

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Tyger, Frank

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

E. M. Forster

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

Horace

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

Worsham, James A.

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Disney, Walt

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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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

29.

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

Weininger, Ben

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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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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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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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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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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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'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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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.

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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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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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

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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.

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace