Motivational Quotes

Courage

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.

Best Quotes about Courage

Have the courage to live. Anyone can die.

Cody, Robert

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

Johnson, Lyndon B.

Courage is an everyday thing. When we look reality squarely in the eye and refuse to back away from our awareness, we are living courage.

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

Disney, Walt

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

Barton, Bruce

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Fortune favors the brave.

Virgil

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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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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Nothing recommends a man to the female mind than courage.

12.

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

Kirby Larson

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You take a number of small steps which you believe are right, thinking maybe tomorrow somebody will treat this as a dangerous provocation. And then you wait. If there is no reaction, you take another step: courage is only an accumulation of small steps.

Konrad, George

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What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Gogh, Vincent Van

15.

It is in great dangers that we see great courage.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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

Tyger, Frank

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

King, Basil

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I am convinced that one of the biggest factors in success is the courage to undertake something.

Worsham, James A.

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

Valois, Margaret

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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

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'Tis much he dares; and, to that dauntless temper of his mind, he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour to act in safety.

William Shakespeare

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Never ask the Gods for life set free from grief, but ask for courage that endureth long.

Menander of Athens

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

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When you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild and agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but at the same time as polished, as your sword.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

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There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bernanos, Georges

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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.

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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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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Battista, D.A.

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

Johnson, Samuel

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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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Rest not. Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.

Jackson, Andrew

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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

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

Seneca

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

Mark Twain

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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'Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while is the one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

Wilcox, Ella Wheeler