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

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

Smith, Sydney

Courage is getting away from death by continually coming within an inch of it.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Karr, Alphonse

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That dares not put it to the touch, To gain or lose it all.

Graham, James

Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the untried.

Tyger, Frank

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

It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

Waitley, Denis

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

Horace

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It takes vision and courage to create -- it takes faith and courage to prove.

Young, Owen D.

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

Mark Twain

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Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Seneca

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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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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.

Spender, Stephen

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

Eco, Umberto

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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 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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Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

Lewis, Sinclair

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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

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In fighting and in everyday life you should be determined though calm. Meet the situation without tenseness yet not recklessly, your spirit settled yet unbiased. An elevated spirit is weak and a low spirit is weak. Do not let the enemy see your spirit.

Musashi, Miyamoto

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If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold you head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Landers, Ann

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

Luther, Martin

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

Twain, Mark

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

Proverb

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

Plaut

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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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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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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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Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

Carlson, Curtis