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've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Luther, Martin

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

Corra Harris

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

King, Basil

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

Battista, D.A.

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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

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

Clare Booth Luce

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Voltaire

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Plutarch

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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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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

31.

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Ovid

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Anouilh, Jean

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Eco, Umberto

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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 men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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

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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