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

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

Johnson, John

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

Bible

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

Sherman, William T.

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

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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

Ovid

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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

10.

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

11.

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

12.

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

13.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

14.

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

Collier, Jeremy

17.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

20.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

21.

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

Barton, Bruce

22.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

25.

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

28.

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

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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

30.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

33.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

34.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

35.

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

Adler, Freda

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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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 capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

40.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

42.

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

43.

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Zapata, Emiliano

44.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

46.

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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

48.

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

49.

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

Greville, Lord

50.

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.