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

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Richter, Jean Paul

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Forbes, B. C.

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Disney, Walt

Give us the fortitude to endure the things which cannot be changed, and the courage to change the things which should be changed, ;and the wisdom to know one from the other.

Hart, Oliver J.

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

Thomson, James

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Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

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Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, it remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.

Mill, John Stuart

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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

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

17.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

19.

I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.

Einstein, Albert

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

Taylor, Bayard

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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

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

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Lao-Tzu

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Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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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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We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

Angelis, Barbara De

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We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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

Mark Twain

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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

Kirby Larson

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

Adler, Freda

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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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Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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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

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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.