Motivational Quotes

Courage

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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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.

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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

Forbes, B. C.

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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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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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Bernanos, Georges

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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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

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.