Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

John Wayne

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Plutarch

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 like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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.

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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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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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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.

Hill, Aaron

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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

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

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