Motivational Quotes

Courage

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Courage

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Tyger, Frank

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

11.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

Bible

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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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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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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 spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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.

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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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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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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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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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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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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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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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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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