Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

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

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

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

Thomas Fuller

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

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

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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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 like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mark Twain

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

21.

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

Bible

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Menander of Athens