Motivational Quotes

Courage

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

- Menander

Best Quotes about Courage

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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.

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

Plutarch

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

Seneca

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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

Horace

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Battista, D.A.

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Worsham, James A.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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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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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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

E. M. Forster

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Lao-Tzu