Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Disney, Walt

Best Quotes about Courage

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

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

Cicero

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

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

12.

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

Proverb

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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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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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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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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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Twain, Mark

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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Weininger, Ben

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

33.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

Smith, Sydney

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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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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor