Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Courage

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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.

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

Plaut

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

Proverb

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Bible

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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

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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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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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 brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Horace

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'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

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

Carroll, Lewis

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Lewis, Sinclair