Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Lao-Tzu

Best Quotes about Courage

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

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

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

Kirby Larson

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.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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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

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Euripides

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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

Plutarch

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

Mark Twain

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

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Worsham, James A.

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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

William Shakespeare

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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?

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

Lewis, Sinclair