Motivational Quotes

Courage

There's no substitute for guts.

- Bryant, Bear

Best Quotes about Courage

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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.

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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

John Wayne

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Voltaire

Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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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

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Luther, Martin

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Plutarch

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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

Twain, Mark

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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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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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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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Taylor, Elizabeth