Motivational Quotes

Courage

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

- Teresa of Avila, St.

Best Quotes about Courage

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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

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

Young, Owen D.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Bradbury, Ray

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Plutarch

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

William Shakespeare

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris