Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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.

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.

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

Eco, Umberto

10.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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

Horace

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Forbes, B. C.

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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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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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 takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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

Bradbury, Ray

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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

Anouilh, Jean

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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

Churchill, Winston

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

Valois, Margaret

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

34.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

37.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Churchill, Winston

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

42.

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

43.

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

Mark Twain

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Corra Harris

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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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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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