Motivational Quotes

Courage

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Ovid

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

Horace

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

Twain, Mark

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Bernanos, Georges

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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

John Wayne

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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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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

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Bible

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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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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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.

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

Thomas Fuller

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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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 strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Adler, Freda

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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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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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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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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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Luther, Martin

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil