Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Courage

'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

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Voltaire

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Proverb

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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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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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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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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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

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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

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Luther, Martin

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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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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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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