Motivational Quotes

Courage

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Ovid

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

Bradbury, Ray

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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 shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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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

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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

Plaut

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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