Motivational Quotes

Courage

You have to be tough.

- Ditka, Mike

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Shakespeare, William

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

We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Anouilh, Jean

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 daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

John Wayne

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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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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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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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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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Mark Twain

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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!

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Voltaire