Motivational Quotes

Courage

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

- Joel, Billy

Best Quotes about Courage

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Horace

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

10.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Bible

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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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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

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

Euripides

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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 leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Mark Twain

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

Greville, Lord

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

William Shakespeare

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

43.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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.

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb