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

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

Gilder, Richard Watson

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.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Courage is sometimes frail as hope is frail: a fragile shoot between two stones that grows brave toward the sun though warmth and brightness fail, striving and faith the only strength it knows.

Rodman, Frances

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

Churchill, Winston

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

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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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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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No one reaches a high position without daring.

Syrus, Publilius

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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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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Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim .

Caddy, Eileen

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.

Hugo, Victor

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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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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Weininger, Ben

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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 is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

Flaubert, Gustave

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

Hudson, William Henry

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

Forbes, B. C.

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao-Tzu

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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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

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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.