Motivational Quotes

Courage

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Hudson, William Henry

10.

Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

11.

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

Carnegie, Dale

12.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

13.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

14.

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

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

Worsham, James A.

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

20.

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

21.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

22.

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

23.

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

24.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

25.

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

26.

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

Lao-Tzu

29.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

30.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Horace

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Smith, Sydney

37.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

38.

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

39.

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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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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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

42.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

44.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

45.

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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

48.

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

Proverb

49.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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