Motivational Quotes

Courage

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

- Teresa of Avila, St.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Corra Harris

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

Luce, Timothy

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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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 we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Ovid

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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

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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