Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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

Ellinger, Jules

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

Churchill, Winston

11.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Kirby Larson

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Petit-Senn, John

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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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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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

28.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Cicero

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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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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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Mark Twain

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Churchill, Winston

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

John Wayne