Motivational Quotes

Courage

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

- Menander of Athens

Best Quotes about Courage

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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

2.

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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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

4.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

5.

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 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

7.

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

Karr, Alphonse

8.

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

9.

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

10.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

11.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

12.

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

13.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

14.

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

Horace

15.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

16.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

19.

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

20.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

21.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

23.

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

24.

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

25.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

26.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

27.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

28.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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

30.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

31.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

33.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

34.

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

E. M. Forster

35.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.

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

37.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

38.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

42.

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

43.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

44.

Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

45.

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Euripides

50.

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