Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

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

Mark Twain

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Greville, Lord

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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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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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

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

John Quincy Adams

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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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

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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 follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.