Motivational Quotes

Courage

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

- Taylor, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Courage

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Monson, Thomas S.

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

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

Johnson, John

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

11.

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.

12.

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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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

William Shakespeare

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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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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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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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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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

27.

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

Kirby Larson

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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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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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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

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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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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

40.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Bible

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Brown, Les

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Seneca

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph