Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Courage

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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.

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Horace

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Shakespeare, William

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

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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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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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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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

Mark Twain

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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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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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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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

Voltaire

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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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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

Mark Twain

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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 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

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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

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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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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca