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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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!

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?

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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 most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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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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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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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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

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

John Wayne

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

Joel, Billy

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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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.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Pollock, Channing

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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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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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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.

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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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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.