Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Battista, D.A.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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

Twain, Mark

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Valois, Margaret

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

Plutarch

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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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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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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Pollock, Channing

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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

Carnegie, Dale

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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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

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

William Shakespeare

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Battista, D.A.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy