Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Twain, Mark

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Bible

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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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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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Voltaire

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Cicero

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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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

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Thomas Fuller

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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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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

41.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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.

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Lao-Tzu

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