Motivational Quotes

Courage

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

- Angelis, Barbara De

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Lewis, Sinclair

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Johnson, John

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.

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

Weininger, Ben

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Churchill, Winston

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Mark Twain

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

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

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

John Wayne

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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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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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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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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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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Sherman, William T.

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Cicero

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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!

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Voltaire

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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.

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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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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

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