Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Greville, Lord

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

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

Sherman, William T.

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

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

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

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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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

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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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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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

Seneca

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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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 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.

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Young, Owen D.

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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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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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

Voltaire

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Mark Twain

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

Jean Paul Richter

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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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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