Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Bombeck, Erma

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

10.

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.

11.

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

Clare Booth Luce

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Plutarch

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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

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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

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

Greville, Lord

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

Churchill, Winston

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Bible

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

40.

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

41.

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

Mark Twain

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Thomas Fuller

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

49.

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

Joel, Billy