Motivational Quotes

Courage

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Courage

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

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

John Quincy Adams

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Luce, Timothy

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

10.

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.

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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

Smith, Sydney

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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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.

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Joel, Billy

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

Hudson, William Henry

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

29.

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

Mark Twain

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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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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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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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 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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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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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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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

43.

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

Disney, Walt

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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

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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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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell