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

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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!

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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

Johnson, John

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Disney, Walt

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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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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

William Shakespeare

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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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

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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

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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

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Voltaire

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Eco, Umberto