Motivational Quotes

Courage

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

- Young, Owen D.

Best Quotes about Courage

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Waitley, Denis

'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

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

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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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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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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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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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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

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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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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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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