Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Johnson, John

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

13.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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

Plutarch

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Anouilh, Jean

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Shakespeare, William

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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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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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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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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 worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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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 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.