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

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

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

E. M. Forster

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Joel, Billy

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

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.

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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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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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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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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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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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

31.

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

Bernanos, Georges

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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

Battista, D.A.

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Hudson, William Henry

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Weininger, Ben

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Kirby Larson

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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

Greville, Lord