Motivational Quotes

Courage

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Courage

The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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

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

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

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

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Les

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

13.

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 I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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

Disney, Walt

20.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

21.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

22.

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

23.

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Worsham, James A.

25.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

27.

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

28.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

35.

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 leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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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.

39.

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

Bible

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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 consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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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

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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

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Johnson, John

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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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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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William