Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Courage

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Greville, Lord

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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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Eco, Umberto

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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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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

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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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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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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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 vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

Plutarch

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero