Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage and modesty are the most unequivocal of virtues, for they are of a kind that hypocrisy cannot imitate; they too have this quality in common, that they are expressed by the same color.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Courage

'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

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

No more turning away from the weak and the weary. No more turning away from the coldness inside. Just a world that we all must share. It's not enough just to stand and stare. Is it only a dream that there'll be no more turning away.

Gilmore, David

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Anouilh, Jean

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

Thomas Fuller

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Seneca

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

Forbes, B. C.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Eco, Umberto

11.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

12.

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

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Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

Richter, Jean Paul

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes. Rather the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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

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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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

18.

Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!

Luther, Martin

19.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Petit-Senn, John

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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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

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The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Mignon McLaughlin

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

Zapata, Emiliano

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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.

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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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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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A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

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

Bible

33.

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

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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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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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

Proverb

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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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Father, may these people have the vision to see, the faith to accept the truth, the courage to stand by that which they know is right.

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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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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

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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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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

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If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs.

Bethune, Mary Mcleod

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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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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.