Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Gogh, Vincent Van

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Disney, Walt

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

Menander of Athens

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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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

13.

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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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

18.

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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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

20.

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

Weininger, Ben

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A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

25.

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

26.

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

Churchill, Winston

27.

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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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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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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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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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Johnson, John

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

39.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Cicero

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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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.

43.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

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