Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Disney, Walt

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

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

Shakespeare, William

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Battista, D.A.

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

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

Johnson, John

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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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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Horace

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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 courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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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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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Petit-Senn, John

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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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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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

Brown, Les

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

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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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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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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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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