Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Courage

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

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.

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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

Mark Twain

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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

Greville, Lord

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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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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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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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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Thomson, James

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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

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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

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Cicero

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

Valois, Margaret

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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 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 is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.