Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Weininger, Ben

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Worsham, James A.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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

Proverb

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Twain, Mark

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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

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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

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

Bible

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Bombeck, Erma

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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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.

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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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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North