Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Clare Booth Luce

Best Quotes about Courage

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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

Adler, Freda

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

Carnegie, Dale

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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

Evans, Richard L.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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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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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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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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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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

Weininger, Ben

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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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 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.

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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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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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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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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Seneca

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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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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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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