Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Weininger, Ben

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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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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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Joel, Billy

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

31.

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

Johnson, John

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, 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.

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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Disney, Walt

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No one reaches a high position without daring.