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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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

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

Plutarch

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

Disney, Walt

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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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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

Ovid

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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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

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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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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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

John Quincy Adams

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Pollock, Channing

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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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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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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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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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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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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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

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

Mark Twain

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?