Motivational Quotes

Courage

Part of courage is simple consistency.

- Noonan, Peggy

Best Quotes about Courage

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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.

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

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

Greville, Lord

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

John Wayne

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

Churchill, Winston

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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.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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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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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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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

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Luther, Martin

31.

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

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Twain, Mark

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave