Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Lewis, Sinclair

Best Quotes about Courage

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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

Luce, Timothy

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

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bradbury, Ray

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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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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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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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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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Battista, D.A.

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

William Shakespeare

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Mark Twain

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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

36.

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Thomson, James

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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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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Lao-Tzu

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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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 burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Luther, Martin

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