Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

- John Quincy Adams

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Worsham, James A.

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

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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

Luce, Timothy

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

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

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

Mark Twain

13.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Euripides

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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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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

20.

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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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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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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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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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 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

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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

33.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

34.

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

King, Basil

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

49.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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