Motivational Quotes

Courage

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

- Taylor, Bayard

Best Quotes about Courage

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

E. M. Forster

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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

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

Mark Twain

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Thomson, James

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

Ovid

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

11.

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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.

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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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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

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

24.

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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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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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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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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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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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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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Petit-Senn, John

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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

Plutarch

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

Karr, Alphonse

42.

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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

46.

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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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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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.