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

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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

Weininger, Ben

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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

Cicero

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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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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

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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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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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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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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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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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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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

Johnson, Samuel

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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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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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Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Valois, Margaret

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Kirby Larson

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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 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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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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