Motivational Quotes

Courage

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

- Gissing, George Robert

Best Quotes about Courage

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

Cicero

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

Menander of Athens

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Twain, Mark

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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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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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

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

William Shakespeare

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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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 decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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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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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'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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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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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.

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

Weininger, Ben

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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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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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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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]