Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Courage

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!

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

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.

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

King, Basil

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

Horace

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

John Wayne

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disney, Walt

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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'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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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Voltaire

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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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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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Taylor, Bayard

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