Motivational Quotes

Courage

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

- Johnson, John

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

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

Disney, Walt

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

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.

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

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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

Plaut

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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

Mark Twain

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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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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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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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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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Euripides

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

Luther, Martin

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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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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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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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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

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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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.

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Carnegie, Dale

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Valois, Margaret