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

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

Churchill, Winston

Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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.

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

Ellinger, Jules

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

Worsham, James A.

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

Kirby Larson

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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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Johnson, John

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Valois, Margaret

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go. [Joshua 1:9]

Bible

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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

Bombeck, Erma

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

William Shakespeare

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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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

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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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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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You are under the unfortunate delusion that simply because you run away from danger, you have no courage. You're confusing courage with wisdom.

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Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

John Wayne

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

Bible

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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch