Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Zapata, Emiliano

Best Quotes about Courage

Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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!

14.

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

Worsham, James A.

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

Bible

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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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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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

29.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Clare Booth Luce

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Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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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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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 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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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Greville, Lord

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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

Weininger, Ben

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave