Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

William Shakespeare

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

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.

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 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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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

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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 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?

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Battista, D.A.

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Seneca

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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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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

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

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