Motivational Quotes

Courage

But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

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

No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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

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

Bradley, Omar

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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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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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

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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

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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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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Cicero

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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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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kirby Larson

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.