Motivational Quotes

Courage

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Courage

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

King, Basil

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Cicero

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Ovid

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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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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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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Greville, Lord

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Bible

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Twain, Mark

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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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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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