Motivational Quotes

Courage

'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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

John Wayne

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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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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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

15.

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

Battista, D.A.

17.

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

Valois, Margaret

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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

29.

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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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

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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

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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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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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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

39.

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

40.

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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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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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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

Euripides

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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