Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Taylor, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Plutarch

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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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

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

Kirby Larson

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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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 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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Taylor, Bayard

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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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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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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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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Plutarch

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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