Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

- Kirby Larson

Best Quotes about Courage

Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

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

Jean Paul Richter

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.

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bradbury, Ray

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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

King, Basil

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

Worsham, James A.

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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

Mark Twain

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

Greville, Lord

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

Ovid

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

Ellinger, Jules

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Brown, Les

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You have to be tough.

Ditka, Mike

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

Shakespeare, William

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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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.

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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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

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

Menander of Athens

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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, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.