Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Courage

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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

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

Smith, Sydney

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Tyger, Frank

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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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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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

Horace

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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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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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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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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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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

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Jean Paul Richter

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Twain, Mark

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander