Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Mark Twain

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

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

Euripides

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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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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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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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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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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

John Quincy Adams

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Twain, Mark

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann