Motivational Quotes

Courage

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Harold Wilson

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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

Cicero

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Mark Twain

10.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

12.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

13.

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

14.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

15.

Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

16.

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

18.

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

19.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

20.

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

Waitley, Denis

21.

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.

22.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

24.

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

25.

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

Ellinger, Jules

26.

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

27.

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

28.

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

30.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

31.

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

32.

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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Churchill, Winston

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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

Disney, Walt

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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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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.

39.

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

40.

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

41.

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

42.

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

43.

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

Thomson, James

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Bible

48.

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

49.

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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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