Motivational Quotes

Courage

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Courage

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

Shakespeare, William

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Thomas Fuller

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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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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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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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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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Luce, Timothy

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

John Quincy Adams

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

William Shakespeare

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

Horace

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Richter, Jean Paul