Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Anouilh, Jean

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Evans, Richard L.

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Seneca

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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

14.

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

15.

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

Luther, Martin

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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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

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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

Voltaire

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

31.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

32.

I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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

Tyger, Frank

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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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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Disney, Walt

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Twain, Mark

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

Collier, Jeremy

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo