Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Jean Paul Richter

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

E. M. Forster

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

11.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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

Euripides

15.

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

Voltaire

16.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

17.

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!

18.

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

19.

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 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

21.

Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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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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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

32.

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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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

34.

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

Churchill, Winston

35.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

40.

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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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

45.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

48.

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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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De