Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Courage

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Taylor, Bayard

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

11.

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

Luther, Martin

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

Kirby Larson

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Voltaire

16.

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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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Disney, Walt

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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 special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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

Thomas Fuller

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

27.

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

Smith, Sydney

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

31.

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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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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

34.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

35.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

36.

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

37.

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

38.

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

Tyger, Frank

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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

41.

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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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

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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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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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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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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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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