Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Roosevelt, Theodore

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Thomson, James

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Mignon McLaughlin

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Proverb

As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

12.

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.

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

15.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Collier, Jeremy

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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

John Wayne

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Cicero

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

Greville, Lord

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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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.

31.

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Twain, Mark

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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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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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

40.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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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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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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

Bible

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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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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