Motivational Quotes

Courage

A man of courage is also full of faith.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Courage

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Worsham, James A.

A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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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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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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

Carnegie, Dale

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Euripides

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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

Mark Twain

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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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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

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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

Harold Wilson

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Petit-Senn, John

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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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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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