Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Churchill, Winston

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Churchill, Winston

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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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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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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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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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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Plutarch

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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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.

39.

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

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

John Wayne

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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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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