Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Courage

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Taylor, Bayard

Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

John Wayne

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

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

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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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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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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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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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Plaut

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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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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

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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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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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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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

35.

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

Bible

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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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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Thomson, James

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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.

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave