Motivational Quotes

Courage

Fortune and love favor the brave.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Seneca

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

Karr, Alphonse

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Twain, Mark

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

Smith, Sydney

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

Plaut

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

Young, Owen D.

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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.

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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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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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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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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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

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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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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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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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Greville, Lord

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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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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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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Joel, Billy

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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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

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

Plutarch

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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