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

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

Lee, Harper

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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!

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

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.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

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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 takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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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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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Shakespeare, William

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No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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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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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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

Kirby Larson

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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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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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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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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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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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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

Mark Twain

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Bible

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

Luther, Martin

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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Write on your doors the saying wise and old. Be bold! and everywhere -- Be bold; Be not too bold! Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less sustaineth him and the steadiness of his mind beareth him out.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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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

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North