Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Courage

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Twain, Mark

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

King, Basil

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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.

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

Adler, Freda

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

E. M. Forster

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

Mark Twain

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Cicero

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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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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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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Seneca

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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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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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Plutarch

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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

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Johnson, John