Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Courage

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Bible

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Churchill, Winston

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Harold Wilson

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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

Worsham, James A.

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Plaut

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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.

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

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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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry