Motivational Quotes

Courage

Fortune favors the brave.

- Virgil

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Valois, Margaret

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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

Young, Owen D.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Jean Paul Richter

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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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

Mark Twain

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

Seneca

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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.

18.

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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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

John Wayne

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Taylor, Bayard

33.

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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Voltaire

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

48.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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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