Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Ellinger, Jules

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

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

Barton, Bruce

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

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

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

Bible

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

John Wayne

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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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.

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

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

Harold Wilson

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

William Shakespeare

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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

Twain, Mark

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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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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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.