Motivational Quotes

Courage

You have to be tough.

- Ditka, Mike

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Bible

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

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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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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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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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 leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

King, Basil

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy