Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Courage

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

John Wayne

To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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.

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Voltaire

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Worsham, James A.

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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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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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

Luther, Martin

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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

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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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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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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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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 art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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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

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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