Motivational Quotes

Courage

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Courage

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

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

Churchill, Winston

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Mark Twain

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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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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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

John Wayne

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Churchill, Winston

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Twain, Mark

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Plutarch

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

Kirby Larson

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Battista, D.A.