Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Horace

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

John Wayne

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

Greville, Lord

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

Carroll, Lewis

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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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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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Smith, Sydney

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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

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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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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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

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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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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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Forbes, B. C.

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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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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.