Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Voltaire

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Shakespeare, William

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Johnson, Samuel

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.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

10.

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

Bradbury, Ray

11.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

14.

No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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

Churchill, Winston

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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

Seneca

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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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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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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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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

27.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

28.

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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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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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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

Kirby Larson

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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

Disney, Walt

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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.

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Petit-Senn, John