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

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

Worsham, James A.

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Luce, Timothy

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Greville, Lord

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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

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

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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

Tyger, Frank

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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 -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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

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

Forbes, B. C.

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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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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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Thomas Fuller

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