Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Johnson, John

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Barton, Bruce

It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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

Churchill, Winston

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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

Greville, Lord

The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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

Disney, Walt

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

Plutarch

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

John Wayne

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

Corra Harris

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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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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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 strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Joel, Billy

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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

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

Proverb

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

Kirby Larson

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

Shakespeare, William