Motivational Quotes

Courage

Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Churchill, Winston

The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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

Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Luther, Martin

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

Greville, Lord

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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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 being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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

Mark Twain

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

Worsham, James A.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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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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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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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Anouilh, Jean

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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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.

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

Plaut

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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 person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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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