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

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

Disney, Walt

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Twain, Mark

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

Churchill, Winston

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Weininger, Ben

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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

Petit-Senn, John

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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

Lao-Tzu

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

Carnegie, Dale

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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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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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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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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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace