Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Kirby Larson

Best Quotes about Courage

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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.

'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

The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

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

Plaut

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

King, Basil

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Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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

Smith, Sydney

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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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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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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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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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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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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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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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

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

Greville, Lord

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Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Mark Twain

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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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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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

Clare Booth Luce

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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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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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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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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