Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Lao-Tzu

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Jean Paul Richter

10.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

11.

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

12.

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

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

14.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Beaton, Sir Cecil

20.

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

21.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

22.

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

Bible

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'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

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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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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

28.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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 resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Joel, Billy

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Hudson, William Henry

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

39.

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

John Quincy Adams

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.