Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Clare Booth Luce

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

John Wayne

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Horace

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Ovid

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

Thomas Fuller

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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

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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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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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

Collier, Jeremy

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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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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon