Motivational Quotes

Courage

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

- TV series, Star Trek

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

John Quincy Adams

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Valois, Margaret

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

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.

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

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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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 ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Twain, Mark

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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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 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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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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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

Battista, D.A.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Twain, Mark

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

Smith, Sydney

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Voltaire