Motivational Quotes

Courage

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

- Lee, Harper

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Shakespeare, William

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

10.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

11.

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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

13.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

15.

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

Churchill, Winston

16.

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

17.

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

18.

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

19.

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

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

21.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

23.

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

Valois, Margaret

24.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

25.

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.

26.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

27.

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

Sherman, William T.

28.

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

29.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

30.

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

31.

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

32.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

33.

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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

35.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Thomas Fuller

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

38.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

39.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

40.

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

41.

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

42.

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

Greville, Lord

43.

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

44.

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

45.

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

Bible

46.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

47.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

49.

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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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