Motivational Quotes

Courage

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

- Johnson, John

Best Quotes about Courage

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Bible

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

Ovid

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

Greville, Lord

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Jensen, Andrew

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

10.

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

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

12.

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 is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

Sherman, William T.

16.

I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

18.

It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

20.

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

21.

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

22.

No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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

24.

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.

25.

But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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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

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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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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

Beaton, Sir Cecil

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

Clare Booth Luce

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

33.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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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.

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

Bombeck, Erma

39.

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

40.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

41.

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

Corra Harris

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

43.

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

44.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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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