Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Sidney, Sir Philip

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Cicero

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Barton, Bruce

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Bible

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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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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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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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.

Ben-Gurion, David

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Proverb

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

Plutarch

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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 bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Shakespeare, William

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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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 easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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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 brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Seneca

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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 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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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement