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

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

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

Kirby Larson

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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

Lao-Tzu

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Worsham, James A.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Cicero

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Plaut

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bernanos, Georges

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Adler, Freda

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Battista, D.A.

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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

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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

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Euripides

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