Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Ellinger, Jules

Best Quotes about Courage

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Churchill, Winston

'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Valois, Margaret

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

John Wayne

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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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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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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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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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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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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Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

20.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Voltaire

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Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

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

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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

Euripides

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

Young, Owen D.

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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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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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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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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Karr, Alphonse

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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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.