Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Greville, Lord

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

Twain, Mark

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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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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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

19.

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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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

25.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

31.

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

Luther, Martin

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

33.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

Twain, Mark

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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.

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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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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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Disney, Walt

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'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

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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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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