Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about 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.

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

Lao-Tzu

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

Petit-Senn, John

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.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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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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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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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

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Monson, Thomas S.

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Worsham, James A.

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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

Plaut

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Einstein, Albert

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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

Euripides

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

Taylor, Elizabeth

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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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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.