Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Waitley, Denis

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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

John Wayne

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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.

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

E. M. Forster

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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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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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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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

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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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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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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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