Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Ovid

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

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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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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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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

John Wayne

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Cicero

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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

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

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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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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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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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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Thomas Fuller

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.