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

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

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

Churchill, Winston

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Harold Wilson

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

Thomson, James

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

Menander of Athens

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

John Quincy Adams

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Bradbury, Ray

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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.