Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Tyger, Frank

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Barton, Bruce

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Forbes, B. C.

12.

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

13.

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

14.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

15.

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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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

17.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

18.

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

Seneca

19.

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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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

Seneca

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Taylor, Bayard

25.

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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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

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

28.

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

29.

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

30.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

31.

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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

33.

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

34.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

36.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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

40.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Clare Booth Luce

42.

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

46.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Shakespeare, William

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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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