Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Karr, Alphonse

I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

Twain, Mark

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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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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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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

Ellinger, Jules

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Mark Twain

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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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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

26.

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Cicero

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Menander of Athens

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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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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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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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For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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.