Motivational Quotes

Courage

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

- Hart, Oliver J.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

King, Basil

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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?

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.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

Churchill, Winston

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

Greville, Lord

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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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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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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

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

Sherman, William T.

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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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.

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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

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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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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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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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

Disney, Walt

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

Thomas Fuller

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

Churchill, Winston

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

Bible

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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.