Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Bradbury, Ray

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Tyger, Frank

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

Euripides

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

Clare Booth Luce

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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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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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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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Young, Owen D.

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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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Ovid

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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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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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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

29.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Johnson, Samuel

33.

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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

35.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Bible

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

Petit-Senn, John

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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.

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bradbury, Ray

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