Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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.

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

King, Basil

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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

Churchill, Winston

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

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Horace

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Harold Wilson

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Twain, Mark

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

Hudson, William Henry

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Landers, Ann

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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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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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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer