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 can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

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

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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

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

Greville, Lord

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Lawana Blackwell

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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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

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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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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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

Battista, D.A.

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

King, Basil

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

Cicero

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb

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

Seneca

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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