Motivational Quotes

Courage

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

- Teresa of Avila, St.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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

Plutarch

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

Kirby Larson

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Bible

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

19.

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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Cicero

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Anouilh, Jean

34.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Pollock, Channing

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Karr, Alphonse

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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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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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

King, Basil