Motivational Quotes

Courage

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Ovid

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.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Carnegie, Dale

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

King, Basil

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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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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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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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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Mark Twain

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

Plutarch

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Luther, Martin

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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 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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Plutarch

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

Menander of Athens

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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

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William