Motivational Quotes

Courage

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Ovid

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

Young, Owen D.

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.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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

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 us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Collier, Jeremy

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

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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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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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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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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

Horace

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bradley, Omar

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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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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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Twain, Mark

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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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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch