Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Ellinger, Jules

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Thomas Fuller

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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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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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

E. M. Forster

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Anouilh, Jean

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Adler, Freda

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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

Voltaire

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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

Luther, Martin

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Valois, Margaret

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.