Motivational Quotes

Courage

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Sherman, William T.

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

John Quincy Adams

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

12.

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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

16.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

18.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

20.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

21.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

25.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

27.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

29.

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

30.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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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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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Anouilh, Jean

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

43.

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

Bible

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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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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

48.

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 poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel