Motivational Quotes

Courage

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

Best Quotes about Courage

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

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.

It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

Twain, Mark

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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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.

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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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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No fact of human nature is more characteristic that its willingness to live on a chance.

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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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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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

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

Bradbury, Ray

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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

Worsham, James A.

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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

Twain, Mark

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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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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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius