Motivational Quotes

Courage

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

- Summers, David

Best Quotes about Courage

True courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal, bullying insolence, and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free.

Shaftesbury, Lord

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

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

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Gissing, George Robert

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Disney, Walt

No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Plaut

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

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I think of those who were truly great. The names of those who in their lives fought for life, Who wore at their hearts the fire's center.

Spender, Stephen

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We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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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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Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?

Lindbergh, Charles A.

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

Bible

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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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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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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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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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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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Courage -- a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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

Valois, Margaret

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

Petit-Senn, John

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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Forbes, B. C.

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Have the courage of your desire.

Gissing, George Robert

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas