Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Courage

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Bible

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

10.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

11.

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

Young, Owen D.

12.

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Smith, Sydney

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

20.

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.

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

22.

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

Mark Twain

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

Corra Harris

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

Euripides

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

Weininger, Ben

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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

29.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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.

33.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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 has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

40.

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Bible

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.