Motivational Quotes

Courage

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Courage

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

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

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

Twain, Mark

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

'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

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Ovid

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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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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bradley, Omar

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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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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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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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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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

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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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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Voltaire

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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.

42.

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

Young, Owen D.

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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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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Collier, Jeremy

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