Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Lawana Blackwell

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Carroll, Lewis

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

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

Luce, Timothy

10.

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

11.

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

12.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

13.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

14.

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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

17.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

18.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

19.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

20.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

21.

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

Disney, Walt

22.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Seneca

24.

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

Twain, Mark

25.

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

26.

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

27.

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

28.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Hudson, William Henry

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

33.

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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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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

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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

40.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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

King, Basil

42.

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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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Collier, Jeremy

45.

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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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Mark Twain

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas