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

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.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Brown, Les

Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow.

Swaim, Alice Mackenzie

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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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I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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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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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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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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'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

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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

King, Basil

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

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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

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

Worsham, James A.

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

Twain, Mark

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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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

Battista, D.A.

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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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

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

Euripides

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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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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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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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It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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