Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

John Quincy Adams

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

Churchill, Winston

Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Bible

I've been through it all, baby. I'm Mother Courage.

Taylor, Elizabeth

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

Marden, Orison Swett

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Lawana Blackwell

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

Ovid

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

Pollock, Channing

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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 a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.

Ben-Gurion, David

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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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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

Kennedy, Robert F.

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Bernanos, Georges

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Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Menander

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

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

Plaut

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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

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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Courage brother, do not stumble, though thy path be dark as night: There is a star to guide the humble, Trust in God, and do the right. Let the road be dark and dreary and its end far out of sight. Face it bravely, strong or weary. Trust in God, and do the right.

Macleod, Norman

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He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Valois, Margaret

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There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Hugo, Victor

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Don't foul, don't flinch. Hit the line hard.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever.

Burke, Edmund

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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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Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

Horace

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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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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