Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Weininger, Ben

Best Quotes about Courage

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Jensen, Andrew

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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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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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Horace

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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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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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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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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Joel, Billy

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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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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.

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

Euripides