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

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.

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

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

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

Clare Booth Luce

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bible

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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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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.

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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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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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!

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

Greville, Lord

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

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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

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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