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

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

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

Hudson, William Henry

'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Smith, Sydney

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

Churchill, Winston

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

10.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

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

Churchill, Winston

12.

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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

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

Kirby Larson

17.

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

18.

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

19.

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

Thomas Fuller

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

22.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Plutarch

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Twain, Mark

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Seneca

31.

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

Battista, D.A.

32.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

33.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Horace

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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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.

40.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

41.

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

Tyger, Frank

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

44.

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

Corra Harris

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Churchill, Winston

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel