Motivational Quotes

Courage

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

'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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

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

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.

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

Ellinger, Jules

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

William Shakespeare

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plaut

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

Battista, D.A.

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

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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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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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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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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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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid