Motivational Quotes

Courage

There's no substitute for guts.

- Bryant, Bear

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

William Shakespeare

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Johnson, John

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

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Weininger, Ben

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Valois, Margaret

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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

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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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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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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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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Plutarch

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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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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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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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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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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler