Motivational Quotes

Courage

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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

Twain, Mark

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

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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

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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Cicero

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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

Mark Twain

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

18.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Twain, Mark

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

King, Basil

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

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

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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

Valois, Margaret

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph