Motivational Quotes

Courage

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

- Cody, Robert

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

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

Cicero

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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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 more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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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

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Churchill, Winston

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Jean Paul Richter

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Young, Owen D.

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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

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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.