Motivational Quotes

Courage

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Jensen, Andrew

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

10.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

11.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

12.

Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

13.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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

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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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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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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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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

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

21.

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!

22.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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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

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

32.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

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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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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Disney, Walt

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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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

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

Clare Booth Luce

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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.

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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