Motivational Quotes

Courage

Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.

- Kennedy, Robert F.

Best Quotes about Courage

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

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

There's no substitute for guts.

Bryant, Bear

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Be larger than your task.

Marden, Orison Swett

Part of courage is simple consistency.

Noonan, Peggy

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Monson, Thomas S.

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

Carnegie, Dale

It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

Bombeck, Erma

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

Addison, Joseph

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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

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

Collier, Jeremy

14.

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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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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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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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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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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A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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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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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

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It takes courage to attempt the impossible. What would we think of Moses today if when it was time to part the red sea, he had said Why don't you guys go build a bridge?

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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.

Arthur, William

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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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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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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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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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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Bradley, Omar

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The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

Hazlitt, William

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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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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 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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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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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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Fortune helps the brave.

Terence

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Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Lao-Tzu

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

Bible

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Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Thomas Fuller

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

Ovid

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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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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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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Churchill, Winston

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

Luther, Martin

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

Plutarch

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

Thomas Fuller

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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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