Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Young, Owen D.

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

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.

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

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Cicero

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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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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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Ovid

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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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 like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Trungpa, Chogyam

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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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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Churchill, Winston

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

John Wayne

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Mark Twain

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Bernanos, Georges

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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?