Motivational Quotes

Courage

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Petit-Senn, John

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

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

As for courage and will -- we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.

Norton, Andre

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

Ovid

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more daring.

Karr, Alphonse

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

Horace

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare the truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.

Morris, Lewis

Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

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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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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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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Clare Booth Luce

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

Voltaire

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Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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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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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The more wit the less courage.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Thomas Fuller

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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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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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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I can do all things through him who strengthens me. [Philippians 4:13]

Bible

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Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Euripides

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Mark Twain

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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

James, William

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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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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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

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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.

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What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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