Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Churchill, Winston

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

15.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

19.

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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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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

Seneca

22.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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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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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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Pollock, Channing

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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