Motivational Quotes

Courage

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Courage

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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

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

Hudson, William Henry

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

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

Mark Twain

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

Thomson, James

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

King, Basil

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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 beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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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

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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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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

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

Eco, Umberto

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Plutarch

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

Johnson, John

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Disney, Walt

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Tyger, Frank

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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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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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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Churchill, Winston