Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Plutarch

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

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.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

John Wayne

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

Harold Wilson

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

King, Basil

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Joel, Billy

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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 in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Voltaire

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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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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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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

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

Eco, Umberto

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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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.