Motivational Quotes

Courage

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

- Tyger, Frank

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

William Shakespeare

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Jensen, Andrew

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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

14.

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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

16.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Smith, Sydney

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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

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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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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Horace

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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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 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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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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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.