Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Lewis, Sinclair

Best Quotes about Courage

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Kirby Larson

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Mark Twain

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Plaut

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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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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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

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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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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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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

Disney, Walt

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Seneca

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Horace

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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