Motivational Quotes

Courage

Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

- Johnson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Courage

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

'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

'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

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

Gogh, Vincent Van

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

When valour preys on reason, it eats the sword it fights with.

William Shakespeare

I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

Shakespeare, William

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

Kennedy, John F.

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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Courage is acting in spite of fear.

Hunter, Howard W.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Courage is the capacity to confirm what can be imagined.

Rosten, Leo

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.

Stone, W. Clement

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Do not fear, for those who are with us, are more than those who are with them. [2 Kings 6:16]

Bible

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

Kirby Larson

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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other great minds in a century.

Madwed, Sidney

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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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The brave don't live forever, but the cautious don't live at all. Here's to the brave!

Luce, Timothy

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

Plutarch

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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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A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.

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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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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Horace

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Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

John Quincy Adams

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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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I would define true courage to be a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Sherman, William T.

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To have courage for whatever comes in life -- everything lies in that.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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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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Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

DeVos, Richard M.

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

Anouilh, Jean

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Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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The real acid test of courage is to be just your honest self when everybody is trying to be like somebody else.

Jensen, Andrew

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It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von