Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Luce, Timothy

Best Quotes about Courage

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!

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

Bible

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Twain, Mark

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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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

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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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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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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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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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

18.

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

19.

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

E. M. Forster

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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

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Twain, Mark

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Kirby Larson

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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 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.

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Cicero

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Plaut

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Churchill, Winston

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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 consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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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.