Motivational Quotes

Courage

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

- Bradbury, Ray

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Ovid

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

Taylor, Bayard

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

'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

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

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

12.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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

Collier, Jeremy

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

Ovid

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Shakespeare, William

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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

Churchill, Winston

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Mark Twain

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Mark Twain

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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.

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Tyger, Frank

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von