Motivational Quotes

Courage

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Courage

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.

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Greville, Lord

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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.

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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

Clare Booth Luce

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

King, Basil

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

Lao-Tzu

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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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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

30.

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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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

Eco, Umberto

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Adler, Freda

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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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!

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

Horace

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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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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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel