Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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?

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

John Wayne

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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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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

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

Petit-Senn, John

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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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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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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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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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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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Bible

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Ellinger, Jules

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Twain, Mark

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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