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

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!

We must have the courage to allow a little disorder in our lives.

Weininger, Ben

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

Churchill, Winston

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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

Adler, Freda

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

10.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

11.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

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

Mark Twain

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

Taylor, Bayard

16.

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

17.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

18.

If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

19.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Mark Twain

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

Bible

24.

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

Hudson, William Henry

25.

We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

Petit-Senn, John

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I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

E. M. Forster

31.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

32.

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

33.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

34.

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

Thomas Fuller

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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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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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

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He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

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Some have been thought brave because they didn't have the courage to run away.

Proverb

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

John Wayne

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Churchill, Winston

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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.