Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

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

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

Voltaire

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Cicero

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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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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Bible

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

Ovid

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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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 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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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Twain, Mark

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von