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

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

Mark Twain

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

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

Adler, Freda

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.

Howard, Vernon

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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

Johnson, John

With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall. [Psalms 18:29]

Bible

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

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

Kirby Larson

11.

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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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!

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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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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

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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 word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

19.

One who lacks courage to start has already finished

20.

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

Hudson, William Henry

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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

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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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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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

Voltaire

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

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

33.

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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It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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 almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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 never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

Anouilh, Jean

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One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

Browning, Robert

47.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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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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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.