Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Kirby Larson

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Corra Harris

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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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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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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

Clare Booth Luce

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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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

Disney, Walt

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Ellinger, Jules

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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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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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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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]