Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Anouilh, Jean

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

Luce, Timothy

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

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

10.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

11.

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

Disney, Walt

12.

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

Tyger, Frank

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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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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

18.

'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

19.

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

Churchill, Winston

20.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

25.

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

31.

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

Anouilh, Jean

32.

Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

33.

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

Monson, Thomas S.

34.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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

39.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

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

Johnson, John

41.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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 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.