Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Teresa of Avila, St.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Adler, Freda

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

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

Proverb

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

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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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 bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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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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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

John Wayne

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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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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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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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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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.