Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

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

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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.

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bradbury, Ray

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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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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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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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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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Young, Owen D.

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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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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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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb

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

Jensen, Andrew

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Ovid

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

William Shakespeare

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

Harold Wilson

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Smith, Sydney