Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Menander of Athens

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

Bible

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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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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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Weininger, Ben

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Cicero

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

Clare Booth Luce

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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

Harold Wilson

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

Twain, Mark

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

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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 advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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.