Motivational Quotes

Courage

I'm very brave generally, he went on in a low voice: only today I happen to have a headache.

- Carroll, Lewis

Best Quotes about Courage

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

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct. Nature and being are identical in creatures like them. But a man or woman becomes fully human only by his or her choices and his or her commitment to them. People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day by day. These decisions require courage.

May, Rollo

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

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.

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

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

Greville, Lord

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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

Horace

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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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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Life becomes real only when we begin to face and solve our own problems. Until then we only swim in circles in a large fantasy world which tends to make us very tired of living. Don't waste energy! Face life now!

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

Plutarch

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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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The most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.

Coubertin, Baron Pierre De

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Churchill, Winston

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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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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Smith, Sydney

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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.

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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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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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It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Mark Twain

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

Disney, Walt

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It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Ellinger, Jules

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A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Jean Paul Richter

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Shakespeare, William

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

King, Basil

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It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Twain, Mark

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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

Barton, Bruce

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Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid... for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

Deuteronomy

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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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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