Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Lewis, Sinclair

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Johnson, John

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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.

The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

William Shakespeare

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bible

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

Lawana Blackwell

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

10.

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

11.

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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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

14.

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

Churchill, Winston

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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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

17.

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

Churchill, Winston

18.

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

19.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

20.

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

21.

You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

22.

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

Smith, Sydney

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

24.

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

Cicero

25.

You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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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

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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?

28.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

30.

Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

34.

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

35.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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

Proverb

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

40.

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

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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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

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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

45.

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

46.

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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