Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Twain, Mark

Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Twain, Mark

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bradbury, Ray

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

25.

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

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

Luther, Martin

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

30.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Forbes, B. C.

33.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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