Motivational Quotes

Courage

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

- TV series, Star Trek

Best Quotes about Courage

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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

Seneca

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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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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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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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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

Worsham, James A.

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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

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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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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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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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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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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

Churchill, Winston

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

King, Basil

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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

John Quincy Adams

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

Voltaire

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Eco, Umberto

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