Motivational Quotes

Courage

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

- Taylor, Elizabeth

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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.

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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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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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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 like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Twain, Mark

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We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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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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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Eco, Umberto

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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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

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Battista, D.A.

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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

John Wayne

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

Cicero

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

Twain, Mark

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova