Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

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

John Quincy Adams

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

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.

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

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Anouilh, Jean

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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

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

Sherman, William T.

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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

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

Ovid

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

Horace

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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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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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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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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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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

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch