Motivational Quotes

Courage

Have the courage of your desire.

- Gissing, George Robert

Best Quotes about Courage

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Harold Wilson

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

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

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Lawana Blackwell

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

11.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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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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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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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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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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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

28.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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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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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

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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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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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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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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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.

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

William Shakespeare

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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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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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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

Euripides

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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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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.