Motivational Quotes

Courage

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

- Ellinger, Jules

Best Quotes about Courage

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

E. M. Forster

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

You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

John Wayne

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

Menander of Athens

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Euripides

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

Luther, Martin

14.

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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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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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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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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

23.

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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

31.

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

32.

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

33.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.