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

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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

Proverb

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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.

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Forbes, B. C.

11.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Horace

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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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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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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

16.

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Young, Owen D.

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

Valois, Margaret

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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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

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Petit-Senn, John

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Greville, Lord

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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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 have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Churchill, Winston

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

41.

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

45.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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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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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton