Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Horace

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

Mark Twain

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

Carnegie, Dale

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

14.

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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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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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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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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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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

Harold Wilson

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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

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

Joel, Billy

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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

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Twain, Mark

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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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