Motivational Quotes

Courage

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

- Bernanos, Georges

Best Quotes about Courage

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

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

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

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, 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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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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 is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Horace

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Thomas Fuller

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois