Motivational Quotes

Courage

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Mark Twain

Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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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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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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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.

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

Euripides

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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

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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

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, 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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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Valois, Margaret

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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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Weininger, Ben

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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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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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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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'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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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

Worsham, James A.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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