Motivational Quotes

Courage

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

- Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Churchill, Winston

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Cicero

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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 fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Voltaire

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

John Wayne

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Harold Wilson

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

Thomson, James

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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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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.