Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Courage

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

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

Bible

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

Cicero

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

'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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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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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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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

19.

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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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.

22.

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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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 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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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Shakespeare, William

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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

King, Basil

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

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

Twain, Mark

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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

Petit-Senn, John

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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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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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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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'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