Motivational Quotes

Courage

Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Courage

Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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

Zapata, Emiliano

What a new face courage puts on everything!

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Churchill, Winston

Anybody with a little guts and the desire to apply himself can make it, he can make anything he wants to make of himself.

Shoemaker, Willie

Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

Screw up your courage, you screwed up everything else.

Smith, Donald

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.

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

Lewis, Sinclair

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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I am more important than my problems.

Ferrer, Jose

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Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Plutarch

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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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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Last, but by no means least, courage-moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world ;is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle-the roar of the crowd on one side and the voice of your ;conscience on the other.

Macarthur, Douglas

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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

Eco, Umberto

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

King, Basil

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

Disney, Walt

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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One who lacks courage to start has already finished

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Collier, Jeremy

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

Voltaire

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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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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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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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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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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A man of courage is also full of faith.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Taylor, Bayard

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

Thomas Fuller

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And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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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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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

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Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible; not to run away.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

Carnegie, Dale

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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

Greville, Lord

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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

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

Mignon McLaughlin