Motivational Quotes

Courage

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

- Addison, Joseph

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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

Bernanos, Georges

Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.

Summers, David

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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.

The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

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

Mignon McLaughlin

10.

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

Kirby Larson

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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

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Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

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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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The ideas that have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth.

Einstein, Albert

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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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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Aristotle

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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

Joel, Billy

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

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Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things; knows not the livid loneliness of fear.

Earhart, Amelia

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

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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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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Corra Harris

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The scars you acquire while exercising courage will never make you feel inferior.

Battista, D.A.

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There is another side to chivalry. If it dispenses leniency, it may with equal justification invoke control.

Adler, Freda

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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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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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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Seneca

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

Bradley, Omar

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

Valois, Margaret

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Courage is poorly housed that dwells in numbers; the lion never counts the herd that are about him, nor weighs how many flocks he has to scatter.

Hill, Aaron

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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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It's better to be a lion for a day, than a sheep all your life.

Kenny, Sister Elizabeth

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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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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

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

Luther, Martin

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That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

Shakespeare, William

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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.