Motivational Quotes

Courage

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

- Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Mark Twain

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

Lewis, Sinclair

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Disney, Walt

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

Joel, Billy

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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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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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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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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

John Quincy Adams

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo