Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

Pollock, Channing

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Bible

Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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

Bradley, Omar

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Disney, Walt

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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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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Luce, Timothy

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

E. M. Forster

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

Worsham, James A.

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

John Wayne

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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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

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Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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

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Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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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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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lawana Blackwell

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.