Motivational Quotes

Courage

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

- Worsham, James A.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Adler, Freda

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

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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!

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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 brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Jean Paul Richter

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

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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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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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

Thomas Fuller

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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

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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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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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Petit-Senn, John

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois 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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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