Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Courage

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

King, Basil

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

John Wayne

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

Evans, Richard L.

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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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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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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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

William Shakespeare

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Plutarch

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

Thomson, James

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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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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Battista, D.A.

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

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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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 real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Shakespeare, William

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Menander of Athens

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

Tyger, Frank

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Brown, Les

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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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