Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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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

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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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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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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, 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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Luther, Martin

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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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 and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Ovid

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Churchill, Winston

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

Twain, Mark

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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