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

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Ellinger, Jules

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

Voltaire

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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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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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.