Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Disney, Walt

Best Quotes about Courage

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Anouilh, Jean

11.

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

12.

No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

18.

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Twain, Mark

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

24.

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

Bombeck, Erma

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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

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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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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

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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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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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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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

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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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.