Motivational Quotes

Courage

The more wit the less courage.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Clare Booth Luce

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

Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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

Zapata, Emiliano

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

Collier, Jeremy

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

Ovid

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

Horace

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage follows action.

Douglas, Mack R.

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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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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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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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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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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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

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

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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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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.