Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.

Brown, Les

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.

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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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.

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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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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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken.

Valois, Margaret

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

Johnson, Samuel

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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

Churchill, Winston

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

William Shakespeare

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

Disney, Walt

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Churchill, Winston

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter