Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Courage

'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

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Horace

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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

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Weininger, Ben

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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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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Clare Booth Luce

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Valois, Margaret

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Plutarch

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

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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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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

Thomson, James

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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.

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Smith, Sydney

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!