Motivational Quotes

Courage

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Courage

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Hudson, William Henry

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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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 leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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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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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Mark Twain

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

Joel, Billy

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.