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

Schuller, Robert H.

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Ovid

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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

E. M. Forster

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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

Johnson, John

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

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Kirby Larson

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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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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

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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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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von