Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Disney, Walt

Best Quotes about Courage

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Valois, Margaret

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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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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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Voltaire

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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

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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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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

King, Basil

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett