Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Shakespeare, William

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Jean Paul Richter

Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

10.

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

11.

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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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.

14.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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

Harold Wilson

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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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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Smith, Sydney

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

William Shakespeare

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

E. M. Forster

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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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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Be larger than your task.