Motivational Quotes

Courage

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Karr, Alphonse

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

Plaut

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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

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

E. M. Forster

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Disney, Walt

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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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 only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Smith, Sydney

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

John Wayne

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

William Shakespeare

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

Young, Owen D.

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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

Bombeck, Erma

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True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Kirby Larson

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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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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Bible

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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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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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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Sherman, William T.