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 enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

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

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Ovid

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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 charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Clare Booth Luce

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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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

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

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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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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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.