Motivational Quotes

Courage

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

- TV series, Star Trek

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Plaut

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Euripides

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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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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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

Eco, Umberto

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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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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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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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

22.

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

23.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Luther, Martin