Motivational Quotes

Courage

He who dies before many witnesses always does so with courage.

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

Augustine, St.

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

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

Bible

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The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Greville, Lord

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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 is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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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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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Allen, James

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

Ellinger, Jules

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Smith, Sydney

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Stand up to crises. Don't let them throw you! Fight to stay calm... even surmount the crisis completely and turn it into an opportunity. Refuse to renounce your self-image. No matter what happens, you must keep your good opinion of yourself. No matter what happens, you must hold your past successes in your imagination, ready for showing in the motion picture screen of your mind. No matter what happens, no matter what you lose, no matter what failures you must endure, you must keep faith in yourself. Then you can stand up to crises, with calm and courage, refusing to buckle; then you will not fall through the floor. You will be able to support yourself.

Maltz, Maxwell

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There are times to cultivate and create, when you nurture your world and give birth to new ideas and ventures. There are times of flourishing and abundance, when life feels in full bloom, energized and expanding. And there are times of fruition, when things come to an end. They have reached their climax and must be harvested before they begin to fade. And finally of course, there are times that are cold, and cutting and empty, times when the spring of new beginnings seems like a distant dream. Those rhythms in life are natural events. They weave into one another as day follows night, bringing, not messages of hope and fear, but messages of how things are.

Trungpa, Chogyam

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

Proverb