Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Richter, Jean Paul

Best Quotes about Courage

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Greville, Lord

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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.

11.

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

Johnson, John

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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.

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Taylor, Bayard

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

Worsham, James A.

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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 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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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

42.

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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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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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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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

47.

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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.