Motivational Quotes

Courage

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Courage

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

Voltaire

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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 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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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Eco, Umberto

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

John Wayne

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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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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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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?

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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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 the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ellinger, Jules