Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Courage

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

John Quincy Adams

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Bible

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

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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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

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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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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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.

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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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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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

Mark Twain

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Johnson, John

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

Twain, Mark

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.