Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

- Ben-Gurion, David

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

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

Joel, Billy

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

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

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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

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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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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

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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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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

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

Plaut

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

Ovid

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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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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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

William Shakespeare

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

40.

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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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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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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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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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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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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