Motivational Quotes

Courage

If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Courage

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

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

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

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

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

Barton, Bruce

Most of the high spots in our lives come about through encouragement. I don't care how great, how famous, how successful a man may be, he hungers for applause.

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.

Evans, Richard L.

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I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

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Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue, that it is always respected, even when it is associated with vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut.

Pollock, Channing

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

Ellinger, Jules

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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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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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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

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

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Be bold-and mighty forces will come to your aid.

King, Basil

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

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

Bombeck, Erma

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

Disney, Walt

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It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

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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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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

Anouilh, Jean

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis

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

Karr, Alphonse

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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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

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If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.

Smith, Sydney

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Churchill, Winston

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Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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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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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Johnson, John

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.