Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Petit-Senn, John

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!

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

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Voltaire

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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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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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Menander of Athens

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

Proverb

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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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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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

Horace

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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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

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

Euripides

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul