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

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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

Bernanos, Georges

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.

The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Petit-Senn, John

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Euripides

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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.

11.

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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Young, Owen D.

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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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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Plaut

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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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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

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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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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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!

41.

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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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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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

44.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Luce, Timothy